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Childcare and children's services

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Sub-topics: Child maintenance, Childcare and early years, Children’s health and welfare

Latest work

Improving family court services for children

Published on: 21 May 2025

Report Value for money

Childcare and children's services

Monitoring and managing the children’s homes market

Summer 2025

Work in progress

Childcare and children's services

Department for Work & Pensions 2023-24

Published on: 11 Oct 2024

Overview Departmental overview

Benefits

Preparations to extend early years entitlements for working parents in England

Published on: 24 Apr 2024

Report Value for money

Childcare and children's services

Support for vulnerable adolescents

Published on: 11 Nov 2022

Report Value for money

Childcare and children's services

A silhouetted girl sitting in a dark room looking through a window

Evaluating innovation in children’s social care

Published on: 24 Jun 2022

Report Value for money

Project and service delivery

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Child Maintenance

Published on: 3 Mar 2022

Report Value for money

Childcare and children's services

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Child Maintenance Client Funds Accounts 2020-21

Published on: 17 Dec 2021

Report Financial audit

Childcare and children's services

Childhood obesity data visualisation

Published on: 1 Feb 2021

Report Interactive visualisation

Childcare and children's services

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