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We are seeking views on our revisions to the Working together to safeguard children statutory guidance.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Our plan to transform children's social care.
The Department for Education's long-term plan to transform data in children's social care.
The Department for Education's plans for the children's social care dashboard.
We’d like your views on proposals to introduce national rules on the use of agency child and family social workers in local authority children’s social care.
We are seeking views on our proposals to reform children’s social care.
We're consulting on the children’s social care national framework and dashboard indicators.
We’d like your views on our revisions to the national standards and the statutory guidance for the Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services.
Care Leaver Covenant offer from the Department for Work and Pensions.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
A revision to non-statutory advice to support practitioners in the duties and decisions they take to share information.
A strategy to improve the quality and availability of ethnicity data and evidence about looked-after children and their routes out of care.
We're seeking views on proposed regulations and guidance for supported accommodation for looked after children (LAC) and care leavers aged 16 and 17.
We're seeking views on changes to Ofsted fees for children's social care providers and a minimum inspection frequency for secure 16 to 19 academies.
This consultation seeks your views on our proposals for a new judgement on the experiences and progress of care leavers within the ILACS framework.
We're seeking views on proposed technical changes to the Social Workers Regulations 2018.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
We are seeking views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education 2021 with a view to making changes for September 2022.
Ofsted seeks your views on proposed changes to the way they carry out interim inspections of children’s homes and the way they inspect residential holiday schemes for disabled children (RHSDC).
We're seeking views on our proposals to make changes to the fees and frequency of inspections regulations from 1 April 2022.
We are seeking views on proposed standards for unregulated provision for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17.
We are seeking views from care experienced young people on proposed standards for unregulated accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 and 17.
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