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Form for financial reference for children's social care.
How much funding local authorities are getting for the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
Guide for local authorities submitting children in need census 2022 to 2023 returns.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on children who lose their looked-after status when remanded or sentenced to custody.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an adoption support agency.
Specification on the scope and business rationale of the children’s social work workforce census for 2023 to 2024.
Help your children to understand what the risks associated with using social media are.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Resources and tools to help commissioners, managers and leaders reduce the impact of damaging parental conflict on children.
Support for local authorities applying to become a wave 2 area on the families first for children (FFC) pathfinder programme.
Knowledge and skills development for social workers supporting vulnerable children and families.
Specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the 2024 to 2025 children in need census.
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 the children looked after data return for the year 2021 to 2022.
Annex A form for residential family centres to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure 16 to 19 academies.
Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns.
Framework and guidance for joint targeted area inspections of local area services.
Specifications of children in need census reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
Specifications of children’s social work workforce reports that local authorities can run in COLLECT.
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