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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.
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.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre, residential holiday scheme or supported accommodation service.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Helping early years providers offer healthy, balanced and nutritious food.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a children's home.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Information for childminders and providers of childcare on domestic premises wishing to register with a childminder agency.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
Find out how misconduct in the teaching profession is regulated, investigated and managed.
Guidance for childcare providers on when you must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency, when you cannot register, and when you do not have to.
Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.
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