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Letter giving local authorities notice of a grant to help with costs of data returns.
Letter to local authorities outlining new burdens funding to set up agency child and family social worker data collection for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
States’ obligations on the role of the family in supporting human rights of its members. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders.
The first stage of the government’s plan to deliver 3,000 nurseries by upgrading spare spaces in primary schools will begin next month.
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An improvement notice issued to Worcestershire County Council, following an Ofsted and CQC inspection in April 2024.
Local leaders laid bare the stark challenges that must be overcome to tackle child poverty in their communities when they met with the new Child Poverty Taskforce today [Thursday 19 September].
Statutory direction issued to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council due to its children’s social care services provision.
Ofsted, CQC, HMICFRS and HMI Probation undertake a programme of thematic joint targeted area inspections (JTAI) and the inspectorates have today published guidance for their thematic focus on domestic abuse.
An improvement notice issued to Halton Borough Council following an Ofsted inspection in October 2021.
A revised statutory direction issued to Middlesbrough Council due to poor performance in children’s social care services. This was revoked in September 2024.
Hundreds of thousands of parents of children from nine months old take up new 15 government funded hours of early education from Monday
An improvement notice issued to Suffolk County Council following an Ofsted inspection in November 2023.
Temporary ban on prescription and supply of puberty blockers extended.
Urgent work on tackling one of Britain’s biggest social injustices begun yesterday [Wednesday 14 August] as the government’s Child Poverty Taskforce met for the first time.
An improvement notice issued to Cheshire East Council, following the publication of an Ofsted inspection report of the council's children's social care services in May 2024.
An improvement notice issued to Kent County Council following a joint inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in September 2022.
Applications are open for experts wishing to join the OPSS Register of Specialists.
The Prime Minister has appointed leads of a new ministerial taskforce to begin work on the Child Poverty Strategy.
A national respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine programme protecting infants and elderly people will save lives in the UK.
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