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This guidance, produced with Cambridge Family Law, aims to inform British nationals who are planning to have a child through international surrogacy.
What local authorities need to do to place a child under 13 in a secure children’s home, and guidance on when it is appropriate to do so.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
Guidance for local authorities applying for funding to support young people leaving care from children’s homes.
Guidance on child protection cases and care orders where the child has links to a foreign country.
Guide for local authorities and schools submitting early years foundation stage profile data for 2025.
Guide for schools on how terrorist groups such as ISIL use social media to encourage travel to Syria and Iraq.
Application forms to complete to register with Ofsted.
Criteria and advice for accredited early years initial teacher training providers offering the assessment only route to EYTS.
This highlights the fundamental importance of social and emotional capabilities for achievement of all other outcomes for young people.
Resources to support local authorities investing in the local commissioning of oral health improvement programmes for pre-school children.
Information for employers on supporting kinship carers in the workplace and how to be a kinship friendly employer.
Information leaflet and poster to support the whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy programme.
How local authorities can develop, use and improve data analytics tools in children's social care.
Information on the DfE early years COVID-19 recovery programme, which offers leadership support, coaching and mentoring.
Information for healthcare professionals on pertussis (whooping cough).
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