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Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
You will need to follow a specific procedure if you want to contract as an Ofsted inspector.
A report from the Chief Medical Officers in the UK on the amount and type of physical activity people should be doing to improve their health.
Our expectations of inspectors and providers during inspection or wider regulatory activity.
Guidance to help practitioners identify the signs of child abuse and neglect and understand what action to take.
Safeguarding guidance for providers of activities, after-school clubs, tuition and other out-of-school settings.
Find out when you must apply to register if you want to set up a daycare organisation for children.
Information for childminders and providers of childcare on domestic premises wishing to register with a childminder agency.
Find out about the 2 maternity benefits available under the social security scheme: Statutory Maternity Pay and Maternity Allowance.
Guidance on the 8 principles of a whole school or college approach to promoting mental health and wellbeing.
Guidance for childcare providers on when you must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency, when you cannot register, and when you do not have to.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.
Multi-agency guidelines on FGM for those with statutory duties to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.
How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.
Use this service if you want to apply to join the compulsory or voluntary parts of the Childcare Register.
Find out how misconduct in the teaching profession is regulated, investigated and managed.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
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