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Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.
Post-qualifying assessment and accreditation criteria for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
How local authorities should notify incidents to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
Statutory guidance relating to care planning and reviewing arrangements for looked-after children.
Commissioning Support Programme paper introducing the essential characteristics of good commissioning in children’s services.
A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
Operational guidance for local authorities on the data collection and price caps rules on the use of agency child and family social workers.
Guidance for safeguarding partners and child protection professionals on what the panel does and how it works.
Statutory guidance on providing effective advocacy services for children and young people making a complaint under the children Act 1989.
A guide to help young people living in children’s homes or foster care understand the 'Independent reviewing officers handbook'.
Guidance on supporting and protecting all children whose health and development is at risk because of neglect.
How local authorities should collect and submit data to complete the children’s social work workforce census.
Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2023 to 2024.
Knowledge and skills development for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
This information is to help British nationals in Norway make informed decisions if they have been a victim of domestic abuse.
Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.
Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns.
Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
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