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How to get a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if you want to look after children for a living: who needs a check, what it costs and how long it takes.
Guidance for safeguarding partners on implementing family help, multi-agency child protection and family group decision-making reforms.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
You might need to apply to Ofsted and provide them with certain information if you are connected with a children's social care service.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
A practical guide for staff on managing cases of infectious diseases in children and young people settings, including education.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
What social care providers need to know when notifying Ofsted of a serious incident.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
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.
If you are a childminder, you must tell Ofsted within 14 days about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home where you look after children. This includes children who turn 16. If you are a childminder without �
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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