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Guidance on information sharing for people who provide safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
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.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
How education settings should prepare for and respond to terrorism and other major incidents.
What social care providers need to know when notifying Ofsted of a serious incident.
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.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.
A practical guide for staff on managing cases of infectious diseases in children and young people settings, including education.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework.
Professional development resources for improving teaching and leadership of reception years.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
How to sign in and update your account details and nominate a delegate.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Guidance for local authorities on how to express an interest in applying to become part of the Kinship Allowance Pilot.
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