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Further education and skills statistics

Ofsted inspection statistics for further education and skills.

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Ofsted
Published:
11 December 2014
Last updated:
5 March 2026
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  1. Added 'Data on Ofsted inspections and visits: deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence' under 'Transparency data'.

  2. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from November 2025 to August 2026'.

  3. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2025'.

  4. Added 'Prisons and young offender institutions inspection outcomes: 1 March 2024 to 17 March 2025' under 'Transparency datasets'.

  5. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024' official statistics.

  6. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2024 to August 2025' collection.

  7. Inspection outcomes in each parliamentary constituency added.

  8. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022 official statistics.

  9. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2022' official statistics.

  10. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2021 official statistics.

  11. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2021 to August 2022' collection.

  12. Added 'Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2021' official statistics.

  13. Added the latest release for further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 29 February 2020.

  14. Added further education and skills inspections and outcomes management information from September 2019 to August 2020. Removed the election publication notice.

  15. Added the link to the further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2019 release.

  16. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2019.

  17. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018.

  18. Added further education and skills inspections and outcomes management information from September 2018 to August 2019.

  19. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2018.

  20. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2017.

  21. Added Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 28 February 2017

  22. Published today: management information - further education and skills as at 1 December 2016.

  23. Added further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2016.

  24. Added inspection and outcomes as at 29 February 2016 release.

  25. Management infomation updated for 3 Feb 2016.

  26. Added monthly management information statistics for December 2015 onwards.

  27. Added statistics covering Sep 2014 to Aug 2015.

  28. First published.

We release Official Statistics annually and inspection data monthly. Sign up for email alerts when we publish new data on education inspections.

For the latest individual inspection reports, please visit our reports website.

Latest data

The most recent data releases covering further education and skills inspections and outcomes.

Official Statistics

Official Statistics follow the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics. They include a main findings document that looks at trends in the data. We publish Official Statistics for further education and skills annualy.

Monthly inspection data

Our inspection data brings together in-year and most recent inspection outcomes.

Statistical commentaries

Transparency datasets

Information that Ofsted publishes for transparency purposes.

COVID-19 data

Data on Ofsted’s visits to further education and skills providers during the interim phase of our return to inspection. Read more about our COVID-19 data and briefings.

Data before September 2019

Publications containing data older than September 2019.

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