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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.
You might need to apply to Ofsted and provide them with certain information if you are connected with a children's social care service.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
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.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
How education settings should prepare for and respond to terrorism and other major incidents.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework, which will no longer be in force from 10 November 2025.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Guidance to help practitioners identify the signs of child abuse and neglect and understand what action to take.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Plain English and Easy-read guides providing information on influenza (flu) and vaccination.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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