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Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals provide early intervention for children and reduce long term health and social costs.
Guidance for schools that describes the experience of primary schools that have worked well to support children in care.
Letter that Ofsted sends to independent fostering agencies giving notice of inspection and asking for particular information.
Information for elected members on the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) including local authority case studies.
A summary of NICE guidance on nursing and midwifery, to underpin practice that will improve population health and wellbeing.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Logos for Sure Start children's centres and for organisations providing Sure Start services on behalf of a children’s centre.
Template letter to clinicians caring for patients who are immunosuppressed or are about to be immunosuppressed.
Information for parents whose British child has been abducted in the north of Cyprus by the other parent or a relative.
Advice for how local authorities plan and commission public health services for children aged 0 to 5 as part of the universal health visitor reviews.
How adopted persons and birth relatives can apply for a review of an adoption agency’s qualifying determination letter.
A summary of what attending a review panel is like and the documents that you can submit to the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM).
Guidance from the Chief Medical Officer for healthcare professionals on safe alcohol consumption for children and young people.
Current evidence and core messaging for dental teams and healthcare professionals.
Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2025 to 2026 children in need census.
How local authorities can request support from sector-led improvement partners to improve their children’s services.
The health visitor information pack describes the evidence-based approach of the work of health visitors and information on the transition of the service over the next 2 years and beyond.
This DVD highlights the importance of immunisation in protecting children from serious diseases.
The framework for Ofsted inspections of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).
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