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  • The renewed Women’s Health Strategy sets out how the government will improve women’s health and healthcare over the next 10 years.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • The government has committed to publishing guidance on early years screen time. We are seeking evidence to inform the guidance.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • We're seeking views on applying the new nutrient profiling model (NPM) to the advertising and promotions restrictions on 'less healthy' food and drink products.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Explains the ASYE programme for newly qualified social workers and how employers can register to take part.

    First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

  • This Child Rights Impact Assessment outlines how the government has considered the rights of children in developing the Child Poverty Strategy: Our Children, Our Future.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Strategy document setting out the government’s ambitious decade long mission to tackle the drivers of child poverty across the UK.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • We’re seeking to understand how local authorities use artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technology in the delivery of children’s social care.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • This consultation is for all those who receive and provide children’s social care services in England, and those who have an interest in it.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • We're seeking views on a more responsive, holistic and evidence-based system of adoption support, including changes to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Information on the development and rollout of regional care cooperatives (RCCs).

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Sets out the steps required to address the sharp decline in foster carers over the past decade and reform the foster care system.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • A response by the government to the House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Supporting safeguarding partners to discharge their local child protection arrangements.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • The government's response to recommendations made by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry into Black maternal health.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Analysis of the impacts of the planned policies in the Child Poverty Strategy on children and families with protected characteristics.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • The 4 nations response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) market study into the UK infant and follow-on formula market.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • We want to hear from social workers, training providers and people with experience of social work as part of the independent review of social work regulation.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • The UK government is working with international partners to transform children’s care systems and to ensure every child has the chance to grow up in a safe, loving family environment.

  • Proposal to make a permanent order to prevent new patients aged under 18 from beginning to take puberty blockers for the purposes of gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria, under the care of private prescribers.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

  • Update on the potential impact of the introduction of restricting promotions of products high in fat, salt or sugar by volume price.

    First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government