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Fostering for the future: improving the foster care system

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Guidance: Out-of-school settings: safeguarding guidance for providers
Protecting UK higher education from foreign interference
Transparency data: DHSC: spending over £500, December 2025
UK’s ‘unsung army’ of full-time unpaid carers needs more support, report says
Targeted financial support for aspiring social workers
Research: Music hubs evaluation: interim report
Guidance: Apprenticeship funding: legal agreement for training providers
Proposed changes to the Social Work Bursary and the Education Support Grant
Guidance: Healthy child programme: high-impact area framework
Guidance: Healthy child programme: commissioning public health nursing services
Guidance: Delivery of the healthy child programme
Guidance: Academies general annual grant allocation guides: 2026 to 2027
Accredited official statistics: Secondary school performance data in England: 2024 to 2025 (revised)
Accredited official statistics: Key stage 4 performance 2025 (revised)
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