Children's homes and other residential care inspections

Social care common inspection framework for residential family centres, holiday schemes for disabled children, secure children’s homes.

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Guidance and regulation

• Social care common inspection framework (SCCIF): children’s homes
  • Guidance
  • 4 October 2024
  • Ofsted
• Children's homes: recruiting staff
  • Detailed guide
  • 15 June 2023
  • Ofsted
• Children's homes: inspection forms
  • Guidance
  • 5 April 2024
  • Ofsted
• Positive environments where children can flourish
  • Guidance
  • 6 October 2021
  • Ofsted
• Social care common inspection framework (SCCIF): boarding schools and residential special schools
  • Guidance
  • 4 October 2024
  • Ofsted

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News and communications

• Yvette Stanley letter to the Chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
  • 26 October 2022
  • Ofsted
  • Correspondence
• Direction issued to Bradford Council
  • 9 February 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Decision
• Transformational investment in children’s social care placements
  • 15 December 2021
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Ofsted: School leaders determined pupils won’t become 'the COVID generation'
  • 6 October 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Press release
• A new and robust inspection regime for secure training centres
  • 13 March 2019
  • Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, and HM Inspectorate of Prisons
  • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes - autumn 2021
  • 25 November 2021
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Local authority and children's homes in England inspections and outcomes – autumn 2020
  • 20 January 2021
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Local authority and children's homes in England inspections and outcomes – autumn 2019
  • 22 September 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Changes to Ofsted's statistical reporting on inspections and outcomes for children's homes and local authority children's services
  • 21 May 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 29 March 2019
• Proposed changes to joint inspections of secure training centres
  • 13 March 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 14 August 2018

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Regulatory activity in all types of children’s homes
  • 9 July 2024
  • Ofsted
  • Transparency
• Ofsted Freedom of Information request datasets 2017: social care
  • 22 September 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Department of Health & Social Care

• Ofsted