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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.
How you can ask for an independent review if you disagree with an adoption agency’s or fostering service provider’s qualifying determination letter.
Summary of the main changes and provisions of the act and how they may affect children and families.
Guidance on delivering the kinship allowance pilot and other kinship support, such as family network support packages.
Statutory guidance for local authorities and adoption agencies.
Departmental advice containing the national minimum standards applicable to adoption agencies and adoption support agencies.
A summary of what attending a review panel is like and the documents that you can submit to the Independent Review Mechanism (IRM).
Help for those affected by issues around historic forced adoption.
The letter of notice and form to complete (RAA A1) for thematic regional adoption agency phase 1 inspection.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an adoption support agency.
How adopted persons and birth relatives can apply for a review of an adoption agency’s qualifying determination letter.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a voluntary adoption agency.
A summary for caseworkers and line managers of what attending an IRM review panel is like, including the documents you’ll need to submit.
For inspection from 1 April 2018. The letter of notice and form to complete (Annex A) for voluntary adoption agency inspections.
The letter of notice, pre-inspection form and case list form for adoption support agencies inspections.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a voluntary adoption agency.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an adoption support agency.
SC4 is the form voluntary adoption agencies use to notify Ofsted of a new branch.
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