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Technical information for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early education and childcare entitlements expansions.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in a local authority area in England.
Information for employers on supporting kinship carers in the workplace and how to be a kinship friendly employer.
Information and advice on measles and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Advice on symptoms, diagnosis, complications and treatment of measles.
From summer 2013, changes to the meningococcal C vaccine schedule will offer better protection to teens and young adults, including those entering university for the first time.
Advice and guidance to help parents and carers to keep children safe online.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
Guide for local authorities submitting children’s social work workforce returns for 2026.
A list of promises for central and local government to make to young people moving out of care and into adulthood.
How adopted persons and birth relatives can apply for a review of an adoption agency’s qualifying determination letter.
This document provides background information about the separated families statistics and information on how they are compiled.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a voluntary adoption agency.
Leaflet to encourage women thinking about getting pregnant to get vaccinated against German measles.
Guidance for health professionals to share with pregnant women immunised with MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), chickenpox or shingles vaccines.
The funding rates the Department for Education will use to set funding for local authorities in 2015 to 2016.
The benefits of using the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine instead of single vaccines for the 3 diseases.
Booklet on how the Official Solicitor can help if you're under 18 or unable to make your own decisions in a legal case.
The Lampard Inquiry (formerly known as the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry) will examine deaths of mental health inpatients in Essex between 2000 and 2023.
Guide for planning training courses on recognising and responding to child neglect.
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