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Commissioning Support Programme paper introducing the essential characteristics of good commissioning in children’s services.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Childcare service.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
Guidance for anyone wanting to register and operate as a childminder agency.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential family centres.
This guide is for CQC and Ofsted inspectors and providers to help decide if a provider needs to register with one or both regulatory bodies.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to children and their families who need help in a local authority area in England.
The role of local authorities and the application of the corporate parenting principles.
Information about exception requests to adopt children from countries with special restrictions.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage a residential family centre.
How organisations can get involved with the early adopter programme to help develop a new early career framework for child and family social workers.
A leaflet for parents which describes the immunisations offered to premature babies.
Statutory guidance for LAs and professionals who support unaccompanied migrant children, who may be victims, or potential victims, of modern slavery.
This explains how to get the check you need to have if you are aged 16 or over and you live or work in a childminder's home.
A guide for social care professionals on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2024 to 2025.
Resources to support blind cord safety and raise awareness.
Funding for local authorities to appoint virtual school heads to support the education of previously looked-after children.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in a local authority area in England.
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