We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
A practical guide for staff on managing cases of infectious diseases in children and young people settings, including education.
You might need to create a new Government Gateway account if you have forgotten both your user ID and password.
How to sign in and update your account details and nominate a delegate.
Guidance on information sharing for people who provide safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
If you are associated with a registered children's social care service, you might need to apply to Ofsted and provide certain information.
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 local authorities that will receive funding to deliver the holiday activities and food programme.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre, residential holiday scheme or supported accommodation service.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
Information for local authorities about the School-based Nursery Capital Grant 2027 to 2030.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
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.
Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.
Additional funding for local authorities delivering the government’s free early years entitlements programme.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Supporting information for local areas on embedding working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).