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The Department for Education's long-term plan to transform data in children's social care.
The Department for Education's plans for the children's social care dashboard.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
We are seeking views on proposals regarding our approach to funding for early years entitlements for 2-year-olds and under from April 2024.
We’re seeking views on proposed changes to requirements in the early years foundation stage (EYFS).
We’d like your views on proposals to introduce national rules on the use of agency child and family social workers in local authority children’s social care.
We seek views to exempt some providers of adoption support services from the Ofsted registration requirement.
We are seeking views on our proposals to reform children’s social care.
We're consulting on the children’s social care national framework and dashboard indicators.
We’d like your views on our revisions to the national standards and the statutory guidance for the Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services.
An evaluation plan and theory of change of the Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF).
Care Leaver Covenant offer from the Department for Work and Pensions.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
We are seeking scientific comments on SACN’s draft report ‘Feeding young children aged 1 to 5 years’.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
A revision to non-statutory advice to support practitioners in the duties and decisions they take to share information.
A strategy to improve the quality and availability of ethnicity data and evidence about looked-after children and their routes out of care.
Sets out the government's progress in implementing the Early Years Healthy Development Review report 'The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days'.
We're seeking views on proposed regulations and guidance for supported accommodation for looked after children (LAC) and care leavers aged 16 and 17.
We are gathering a range of views to help us reach well-informed and fair decisions on proposed regulatory changes to childcare in England.
We're seeking views on changes to Ofsted fees for children's social care providers and a minimum inspection frequency for secure 16 to 19 academies.
We're seeking views on our green paper about the changes we want to make to the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP) system in England.
A response by the government to the House of Lords Children and Families Act 2014 Committee's report 'Children and Families Act 2014: A failure of implementation'.
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