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Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework.
Guidance on information sharing for people who provide safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
How to get a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if you want to look after children for a living: who needs a check, what it costs and how long it takes.
You might need to apply to Ofsted and provide them with certain information if you are connected with a children's social care service.
What social care providers need to know when notifying Ofsted of a serious incident.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Non-statutory guidance for schools, responsible bodies and childcare providers looking to open or expand school-based nursery provision.
Eligible new childminders can apply for a start-up grant to recover the cost of registering as a childminder.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.
If you are a childminder, you must tell Ofsted within 14 days about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home where you look after children. This includes children who turn 16. If you are a childminder without …
Statutory guidance on the principles behind children’s social care, its purpose, factors enabling good practice and what it should achieve.
How local authorities must meet their duty to ensure children with health needs receive a good education.
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