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Prioritising social care registration applications: putting the needs of children and young people first   

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Prioritising social care registration applications: putting the needs of children and young people first   

Following an unprecedented and sustained rise in applications to register children’s homes, on Thursday 18 September, we published our revised policy for prioritising children’s homes applications. The revised policy sets out the criteria for urgently dealing with applications. In short, …

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Incident notifications: what social care providers need to tell us

Posted by: Jason Bradbury, Posted on: 29 March 2019 - Categories: children looked after, children's homes, fostering, social care professionals
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Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director for Data and Insight, discusses incident notifications from social care providers regulated by Ofsted.

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What are the common features of the best residential special schools?

Posted by: Helen Humphreys, Posted on: 14 March 2019 - Categories: children's homes, residential special schools, social care professionals
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Our specialist advisor for residential care, Helen Humphreys, discusses the common features of good and outstanding residential special schools.

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Implementing the social care common inspection framework - how did we do?

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 1 March 2019 - Categories: children looked after, children's homes, fostering, inspection framework
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Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's National Director for Social Care, discusses the first year of our common inspection framework.

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Fostering: what do the latest statistics tell us?

Posted by: Matthew Brazier, Posted on: 15 February 2019 - Categories: children looked after, fostering, social care professionals

Matthew Brazier, Ofsted's specialist advisor for looked after children, discusses our latest fostering statistics and what they tell us about the sector.

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A look ahead, and thank you

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 21 December 2018 - Categories: children looked after, children's services, joint inspection, social care professionals, social work
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Yvette Stanley discusses Ofsted's work over the last year, and looks ahead to 2019.

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Future joint targeted area inspection themes announced

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 14 December 2018 - Categories: health, inspection framework, joint inspection, local authorities, police, probation, social care professionals

Yvette Stanley talks about forthcoming joint inspection themes, including mental health, early intervention, and older children in need of help and protection.

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Ofsted's annual report: a reassuring picture for social care

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 4 December 2018 - Categories: local authorities, social care professionals, social work
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Yvette Stanley discusses Ofsted's most recent Annual Report, and the picture for children's social care.

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Learning from annual engagement meetings

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 12 November 2018 - Categories: children's services, local authorities, social care professionals, social work

Yvette Stanley discusses our learning from annual engagement meetings.

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Supervision and effective social work practice

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 23 October 2018 - Categories: local authorities, social care professionals, social work

Effective supervision is central to good social work practice, writes Yvette Stanley.

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Integrated children’s systems – what local authorities have told us

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 11 October 2018 - Categories: children's services, local authorities, social care professionals, social work

Yvette Stanley discusses the importance of effective Integrated Children's Systems (ICSs).

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