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Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Find out when you must apply to register if you want to set up a daycare organisation for children.
Safeguarding guidance, e-learning and resources for providers of after-school clubs, activities and tuition, and other out-of-school settings.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.
Reset your password on your Government Gateway account so you can access Ofsted services.
Find out about the 2 maternity benefits available under the social security scheme: Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance.
Use this guide to help you write down your child maintenance arrangement with your child's other parent.
How education settings should prepare for and respond to terrorism and other major incidents.
Meningococcal immunisation information for public health professionals.
Multi-agency guidelines on FGM for those with statutory duties to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.
Eligible new childminders can apply for a start-up grant to recover the cost of registering as a childminder.
Use this service if you want to apply to join the compulsory or voluntary parts of the Childcare Register.
Information local authorities should include in their agreements with early years providers to deliver free entitlements.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a supported accommodation service.
Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.
How early years providers can implement the experience-based route for staff who do not hold full and relevant qualifications.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
How to share concerns about children’s social care services with Ofsted, including whistleblowing, and what we will do with the information.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
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