Inspection of further education and skills providers

How Ofsted supports and inspects teaching and training. Minimum standards for schools and colleges, inspection handbook, pre-registration inspections.

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Guidance and regulation

• Further education and skills inspection handbook
  • Guidance
  • 9 September 2024
  • Ofsted
• How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
  • Detailed guide
  • 10 January 2023
  • Ofsted
• Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 February 2023
  • Ofsted
• Inspecting further education and skills: guide for providers
  • Detailed guide
  • 30 April 2024
  • Ofsted
• Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 November 2024
  • Ofsted

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News and communications

• Ofsted warns of risk to children ‘out of sight’ during pandemic
  • 1 December 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Press release
• Ofsted seeks to make oversight of subcontractors more comprehensive and transparent
  • 16 September 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Press release
• Termination warning notice to King Solomon International Business School
  • 5 February 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Amanda Spielman at the 2019 Annual Apprenticeships Conference
  • 27 March 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Speech
• Amanda Spielman's speech at the 2019 ASCL annual conference
  • 16 March 2019
  • Ofsted
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2023
  • 17 November 2023
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Independent review of careers guidance in schools and further education and skills providers
  • 29 September 2023
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Further education and skills inspections: statistical commentaries 2022 to 2023
  • 15 June 2023
  • Ofsted
  • Research
• Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
  • 24 November 2022
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics
• Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018
  • 21 September 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Better inspection for all
  • 3 February 2015
  • Ofsted
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 05 December 2014

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2019 and 31 March 2020
  • 24 July 2020
  • Ofsted
  • Transparency
• Further education and skills FOI request datasets: 2015 and 2016
  • 26 January 2016
  • Ofsted
  • Foi release
• Review of post-16 provision in North East Norfolk and North Suffolk
  • 20 July 2015
  • Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Skills Funding Agency, and Department for Education
  • Transparency
• Further education and skills FOI request datasets: 2013 and 2014
  • 5 January 2015
  • Ofsted
  • Foi release
• Ofsted Annual Report 2009/10
  • 23 November 2010
  • Ofsted
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

• Department for Education

• Ofsted