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This highlights the fundamental importance of social and emotional capabilities for achievement of all other outcomes for young people.
Guidance for those working with children who may have been recruited or transported for the purposes of exploitation.
Statutory guidance on providing effective advocacy services for children and young people making a complaint under the children Act 1989.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse.
Information for employers on supporting kinship carers in the workplace and how to be a kinship friendly employer.
Annex A form for residential family centres to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Information for support care providers on using the training, support and development (TSD) standards for foster carers.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects voluntary adoption agencies.
How local authorities can request support from sector-led improvement partners to improve their children’s services.
A resource focusing on reproductive choice and ensuring that pregnancy, if desired, occurs at the right time and when health is optimised.
A conversation framework for talking to parents about the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP).
Information for local authorities on how to request school level data and letter templates to send to schools participating in the NCMP.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of privately fostered children.
Action areas for local authorities and their partners to help develop injury prevention strategies for children and young people.
Guidance for health professionals to share with pregnant women immunised with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chickenpox or shingles vaccines.
Information, intelligence and tools with evidence-based approaches for how preconception care can be embedded.
Guidance for health professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND).
How you can ask for an independent review if you disagree with an adoption agency’s or fostering service provider’s qualifying determination letter.
Apply for support from the childminder mentor programme.
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