Children’s Social Services Standards

• National Standards for Children's Residential Centres
• National Standards for Special Care Units
• National Standards for the Protection and Welfare of Children
• National Standards for Foster Care - Department of Health and Children

Disability Standards

• National Standards for Residential Services for Children and Adults with Disabilities

Community Services Standards

• National Standards for infection prevention and control in community services

Overarching Standards

• National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare

• Read our guide to show children and young people what they can expect when they are living in a children’s residential centre.
• Watch our videos with people involved in the development of the National Standards for Children's Residential Centres, on the importance of these standards to children living in residential centres.

• Read our Guidance for providers of health and social care services for children Communicating in plain English with children and their families.

• Online learning course on National Standards for infection prevention and control in community services: Putting the standards into practice
  • take the online learning course on HSeLanD here
  • alternatively you can take the course on our website without a certificate of completion

•    Read our Guidance on the on the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare