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Examples of rapid reviews for serious child safeguarding incidents.
Guidance to support education settings who want to use external expertise to enhance their online safety education.
Guidance for local authorities about extending Personal Adviser (PA) support to age 25.
A list of promises for central and local government to make to young people moving out of care and into adulthood.
Guidance for those working with children who may have been recruited or transported for the purposes of exploitation.
Guide for schools on how terrorist groups such as ISIL use social media to encourage travel to Syria and Iraq.
Application forms to complete to register with Ofsted.
Guidance on child protection cases and care orders where the child has links to a foreign country.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential family centres.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
How local authorities can develop, use and improve data analytics tools in children's social care.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
The framework and evaluation schedule for inspection of secure training centres, for use from 1 April 2025.
Funding for local authorities to appoint virtual school heads to support the education of previously looked-after children.
A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
How local authorities can work collaboratively with other agencies to meet their duties on unregistered independent schools and out-of-school settings.
Advice and guidance to help parents and carers to keep children safe online.
A short guide for schools about how to respond to bullying connected with race or faith, whether it occurs online or offline.
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