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Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2025 to 2026.
Statutory guidance on the planning, commissioning and delivery of health services for looked-after children.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
Statutory guidance on Junior ISAs for children and young people who have been in local authority care for 12 months or more.
A guide on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND).
Find out what you’ll need and what you must do before you sign up to Tax-Free Childcare to get a payment provider account.
Best-practice standards for early years teachers.
Apply to work on non-domestic premises for some of the time.
This guidance outlines 'staying put' arrangements that enable care leavers to remain with their former foster carers after they turn 18.
What providers need to know about the process of connecting people to a supported accommodation service.
Ofsted’s position on Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted.
Find out if you have the qualifications and experience to contract as an Ofsted inspector for childminders, day care and other childcare providers.
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib): immunisation information for public health professionals, including updates.
What schools, registered early years providers and childminders need to know about delivering the early years foundation stage (EYFS), and Ofsted inspections under the education inspection framework (EIF).
Statutory guidance for local-authority-maintained schools carrying out duties for looked-after and previously looked-after children.
A leaflet to remind you to get your child immunised at one year of age.
Guidance for local authorities pre-selected to take part in the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme between financial years 2022 to 2025.
How local authorities should extend the virtual school head role to champion and promote the education of children with a social worker and children in kinship care.
Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.
Information for the early years sector on continuing professional development and sources of support and guidance.
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