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Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
Summary About this guidance This statutory guidance from the Department…
Guidance for local authorities that will receive funding to deliver the holiday activities and food programme.
Introduction The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides…
How local authorities should implement Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies services.
Parenting A parenting evidence-based initiative (EBI) is a structured…
The principles underlying the programme and the expectations that public health nursing teams are expected to meet when delivering services in England.
The areas of public health where health visiting and school nursing teams in England can have the greatest impact.
How commissioners should establish, monitor and assure the quality of public health nursing services delivered under the healthy child programme in England.
Additional funding for local authorities delivering the government’s free early years entitlements programme.
Guidance for schools and academy trusts on how to set up and deliver school-age childcare provision and their role in supporting families to access provision during term times and holidays.
Information local authorities should include in their agreements with early years providers to deliver free entitlements.
Local authority allocations for the holiday activities and food programme, and local authority support for school-age childcare.
Entitlements to 30 hours childcare for children in foster care and early learning for 2-year-olds for families with no recourse to public funds (NRPF).
Guidance for local authorities on the local authority capacity support funding for school-age childcare.
A toolkit to support commissioning of supervised toothbrushing programmes in early years settings and schools.
The funding available to local authorities since September 2024 to expand wraparound care, and their role in delivering it.
Guidance for providers of healthy child programme services on the completion of data tables and fields in the Community Services Data Set (CSDS).
Information on indicators of local authority early education services, and ways to compare an individual local authority to other local authorities.
A template that childminder agencies and local authorities can use to create an agreement around information sharing and collaborative working.
Information for NHS and public health professionals focusing on the life course approach which aims to give people fairer life chances.
Guidance to support local authorities in England to develop and promote their local Start for Life offers.
This implementation guidance supports local authorities to include the voices of families as they design, deliver and improve their Start for Life offer.
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