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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.
Information on the DfE early years COVID-19 recovery programme, which offers leadership support, coaching and mentoring.
Departmental advice containing the national minimum standards applicable to adoption agencies and adoption support agencies.
Guide for local authorities submitting children in need census 2024 to 2025 returns.
Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2025 to 2026.
Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an independent fostering agency.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Information leaflet and poster to support the whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy programme.
Statutory guidance on early childhood services and Sure Start children's centres.
Information for health professionals on the epidemiology, transmission and prevention of Chlamydia abortus which can cause stillbirth or abortion in humans.
Guidance for registered providers and managers on telling Ofsted about changes and how to apply for changes to any conditions of registration.
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2025 to 2026 children in need census.
Guidance to support primary school teachers deliver food teaching in schools.
Resources to support local authorities investing in the local commissioning of oral health improvement programmes for pre-school children.
Statutory guidance about providing short breaks for disabled children to improve their welfare and quality of life.
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Explains how changes to the early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework will affect you, what you need to do and how to access support.
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.
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