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Help your children to understand what the risks associated with using social media are.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2025 to 2026.
Training tools providing evidence-based healthy weight messages for the public health workforce to use in discussions with children, young people and families.
Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals provide early intervention for children and reduce long term health and social costs.
Guidance on the registration of an independent fostering agency branch.
Booklet on how the Official Solicitor can help if you're under 18 or unable to make your own decisions in a legal case.
This implementation guidance supports local authorities to include the voices of families as they design, deliver and improve their Start for Life offer.
Template letter for maternity trusts to use for sending screening results to women who miscarry or choose to end their pregnancy.
Risk assessment guidelines for health protection teams (HPTs).
These codes provide guidance for companies to help them understand how to mitigate the risks from online terrorist content and activity and child sexual exploitation and abuse.
This guidance, produced with Cambridge Family Law, aims to inform foreign surrogacy agencies about surrogacy laws in the United Kingdom.
Guidance for health professionals to share with pregnant women immunised with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chickenpox or shingles vaccines.
Template letter to communicate with parents whose babies missed BCG immunisation.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.
A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
Advice for social care providers about how they may arrange for Ofsted inspectors to review records held on electronic systems.
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) profile handbook provides guidance to schools on how to administer the EYFS profile assessment at the end of the reception year.
Guidance for early years providers on running a sustainable business, and a directory of suppliers of business and finance support.
Wellbeing is linked with an individual’s physical health, health behaviours and resilience (the ability to cope with adverse circumstances).
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