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Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare as soon as possible but always within 14 days.
Guidance on information sharing for people who provide safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing Family Help and multi-agency child protection reforms, and increasing support for family networks.
If you are associated with a registered children's social care service, you might need to apply to Ofsted and provide certain information.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
How to get a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if you want to look after children for a living: who needs a check, what it costs and how long it takes.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
How local authorities should implement Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies services.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre, residential holiday scheme or supported accommodation service.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
The purpose, principles and outcomes local authorities should achieve for children and families, and the enablers of good practice.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a children's home.
One-page summary for health professionals and immunisation practitioners giving vaccinations.
Annex A form for children's homes and secure children's homes to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
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