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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

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

Improving family court services for children

Spring 2025

Work in progress

Child maintenance

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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