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Guidance for local authorities on the national minimum standards for providing fostering services.
You must apply to register with Ofsted if you are the registered person, a registered individual or the nominated individual of a daycare.
What providers need to know about the supported accommodation registration process before applying.
You must tell Ofsted about the premises you want to include in your application to register a nursery or other daycare organisation.
You must tell Ofsted about changes to those responsible for a daycare organisation, and for a home where daycare takes place, and also who is living or working there.
Gives relevant professionals and the police an understanding of the female genital mutilation (FGM) mandatory reporting duty.
Our expectations of inspectors and providers during inspection or wider regulatory activity.
Details of immunisations for children between 2 and 5 years, before they start school.
A guide for early years settings on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
Apply to register a supported accommodation service.
When you can share information about your case, what you can share and what to do if someone else shares information.
Guidance on the 8 principles of a whole school or college approach to promoting mental health and wellbeing.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
How local authorities and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds.
Post-qualifying assessment and accreditation criteria for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
Ofsted’s position on Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted.
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.
Guidance on checks we will carry out on anyone associated with Ofsted-registered childcare.
How Ofsted regulates childcare and what parents should do if they have concerns about their provider.
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