Reading List

Official guidance and inspection frameworks underpin the course content and are useful for supervision, policy review and managerial follow-up. Staff must follow the home's safeguarding and allegations procedures when concerns arise.
- Working Together to Safeguard Children 2026
England guidance on information sharing, responding to concerns about adults and managing allegations. - Children's homes regulations, including quality standards: guide
Regulatory expectations for safer care, relationships, leadership and record-keeping in children's homes. - SCCIF: children's homes
Current inspection framework covering safety, relationships, leadership and whistleblowing. - Ofsted: Children's homes - recruiting staff
Official guidance on safer recruitment practices for children's homes. - Children's social care national framework
Statutory framework on child-centred practice and organisational accountability.

