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Statutory guidance on providing effective advocacy services for children and young people making a complaint under the children Act 1989.
A guide to help young people living in children’s homes or foster care understand the 'Independent reviewing officers handbook'.
Guidance for health professionals to share with pregnant women immunised with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chickenpox or shingles vaccines.
A summary of what attending a review panel is like and the documents that you can submit to the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM).
Read about Reducing Parental Conflict activity in local areas to support families in conflict.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of local area services, and links to the inspection reports.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse.
Guidance for local authorities on how to express an interest in applying to become part of the Kinship Allowance Pilot.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working with you where you look after children.
Information for healthcare professionals on pertussis (whooping cough).
Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building.
Funding for local authorities to appoint virtual school heads to support the education of previously looked-after children.
Guidance for patients and the public and for clinical staff involved in treating pregnant women.
Template letter for maternity trusts to use for sending screening results to women who miscarry or choose to end their pregnancy.
Guidance for frontline practitioners to explore a parent or carer’s relationship with their baby, and identify parent-infant relationship difficulties.
Information about the risk of mumps in pregnant women, vaccination during pregnancy and who should get the MMR vaccine.
How to help different groups respond to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP) consultation.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an adoption support agency.
A conversation framework for talking to parents about the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).
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