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The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.
Statutory guidance on multi-agency working to help, protect and promote the welfare of children.
Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
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If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
The Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, also known as Sarah’s Law, lets those who care for young people find out if a person has a record for child sexual offences.
Applications for the 2026 Step Up to Social Work programme are now closed.
UK qualifications that meet the Department for Education (DfE) criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage statutory framework staff:child ratios.
Sign in, manage and use your online account to receive payments from parents.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Ask HMRC to review your Tax-Free Childcare or free childcare for working parents application if you disagree with a decision that you are not eligible.
You might need to create a new Government Gateway account if you have forgotten both your user ID and password.
Find out how to sign up to Tax-Free Childcare and get a childcare provider account to receive payments from parents using Tax-Free Childcare.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a children’s home or secure children’s home.
How managers can check an early years qualification is approved by DfE and see if the holder can count in staff:child ratios in an early years setting in England.
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
This framework sets out Ofsted's inspection principles and the main judgements that inspectors make.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
One-page summary for health professionals and immunisation practitioners giving vaccinations.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
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