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How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a voluntary adoption agency.
Statutory guidance on securing sufficient accommodation and access to services for looked-after children.
A guide to help young people living in children’s homes or foster care understand the 'Independent reviewing officers handbook'.
Apply for support from the childminder mentor programme.
Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2026 to 2027.
Guidance for child health information system (CHIS) providers on information requirements, and suppliers on specifications for collecting and reporting data.
Evidence and guidance on childhood obesity, to help families and communities intervene and help change eating and activity habits.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
A resource focusing on reproductive choice and ensuring that pregnancy, if desired, occurs at the right time and when health is optimised.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a JTAI of the multi-agency response to the identification of initial need and risk (often referred to as the ‘front door’).
The benefits of using the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine instead of single vaccines for the 3 diseases.
Guidance for health professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND).
Information for support care providers on using the training, support and development (TSD) standards for foster carers.
Find out about the grant-funded innovative projects element of the Reducing Parental Conflict programme.
Evaluations on the impact of the Reducing Parental Conflict programme.
Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2024 to 2025 and 2025 to 2026.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on children who lose their looked-after status when remanded or sentenced to custody.
Specifications of children in need census reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
Advice for social care providers about how they may arrange for Ofsted inspectors to review records held on electronic systems.
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