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Best-practice standards for early years teachers.
Guidance for commissioners and health professionals to make decisions about mental health services and interventions based on data and analysis.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered out of school club, nursery or other type of daycare on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
Guide to the regulations on providing supported accommodation for children and young people. It includes the quality standards that all supported accommodation providers must meet.
Guidance for inspectors on how to decide when to inspect or visit without notice.
Ofsted's framework and guidance for inspecting local authority services for children (ILACS) in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers.
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Guidance for local authorities on the local authority capacity support funding for school-age childcare.
How local authorities and early years settings should provide the entitlement for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds.
Information about the BCG vaccination being offered to protect your baby against tuberculosis (TB).
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
Childcare services can display this poster. It has information about our responsibilities and how parents can contact us.
Guidance for safeguarding partners and child protection professionals on what the panel does and how it works.
Apply to work on non-domestic premises for some of the time.
Set up additional security features on your Government Gateway account
Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.
Use this guide to help you plan a conversation about child maintenance with your child's other parent.
Guidance on running the National Child Measurement Programme, which collects the height and weight of reception and year 6 children across England every year.
A framework to equip children and young people for digital life
Information on indicators of local authority early education services, and ways to compare an individual local authority to other local authorities.
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