Inspection of children's social care providers

Improvement notices, completing an evidence base, children's homes, report a childcare incident.

Guidance and regulation

Ofsted services: forgotten your Government Gateway user ID and password
- Detailed guide
- 7 July 2020
- Ofsted
Social care common inspection framework (SCCIF): children’s homes
- Guidance
- 4 October 2024
- Ofsted
Inspecting local authority children's services
- Guidance
- 13 December 2024
- Ofsted
Ofsted's code of conduct: collaborative inspection and regulation
- Detailed guide
- 3 September 2024
- Ofsted
How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2023
- Ofsted

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News and communications

Revised direction to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: September 2024
- 17 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Decision
Direction issued to Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: March 2024
- 17 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Decision
Direction issued to Halton Borough Council: August 2024
- 11 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Decision
Revised direction issued to Middlesbrough Council: direction revoked
- 9 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Decision
Improvement notice issued to Bury Council: May 2024
- 21 May 2024
- Department for Education
- Decision

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Research and statistics

Herefordshire children’s services: commissioner’s reports
- 4 December 2024
- Department for Education
- Independent report
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council: commissioner's report
- 17 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Independent report
Birmingham City Council’s SEND service: commissioner's report
- 29 August 2024
- Department for Education
- Independent report
Regional adoption agencies – thematic inspection report
- 26 March 2024
- Ofsted
- Research
Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2022/23
- 23 November 2023
- Ofsted
- Statistical data set

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Policy papers and consultations

Children's social care providers: fees and inspections 2024
- 19 March 2024
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 25 January 2024
Children's social care providers: fees and inspections 2023
- 3 March 2023
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 18 January 2023
Introducing a separate judgement about care leavers within the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS)
- 2 December 2022
- Ofsted
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 29 July 2022
Children's social care providers: fees and inspections 2022
- 28 February 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 14 January 2022
Children’s social care providers: inspections regulations 2020 to 2021
- 10 March 2020
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 11 February 2020

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Unregistered children’s homes
- 27 November 2024
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Ofsted Inspectors: lists
- 15 November 2024
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Fostering and adoption agency datasets
- 23 September 2024
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Regulatory activity in all types of children’s homes
- 9 July 2024
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022
- 14 July 2022
- Ofsted
- Transparency

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