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How managers and practitioners can check if an early years qualification is approved as full and relevant by DfE for working in staff:child ratios in England.
Guidance on information sharing for people who provide safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers.
If you are associated with a registered children's social care service, you might need to apply to Ofsted and provide certain information.
Statutory guidance for local authorities on the provision of early education and childcare.
The purpose, principles and outcomes local authorities should achieve for children and families, and the enablers of good practice.
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.
A practical guide for staff on managing cases of infectious diseases in children and young people's settings, including education.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre, residential holiday scheme or supported accommodation service.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
Guidance for local authorities that will receive funding to deliver the holiday activities and food programme.
Guidance for those providing residential children’s homes for vulnerable children.
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.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
The framework and evaluation schedule for inspection of secure training centres, for use from 1 April 2026.
Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.
Information for childminders and providers of childcare on domestic premises wishing to register with a childminder agency.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Use this guide to help you think about the items you would like to include in your child maintenance arrangement.
Meningococcal immunisation information for public health professionals.
Guidance to provide support for early years practitioners when completing the early years foundation stage (EYFS) progress check at age 2.
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