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Guidance for local area leaders on what support they’ll receive depending on the outcome of their inspection.
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
This page explains the Building Safety Regulator's inspection selection criteria and how it will prioritise the inspection of building control bodies.
How Ofsted is revising inspection methodology to support the education inspection framework.
Guidance on inspecting further education and skills providers, including short inspections, safeguarding, our handbook and inspections of training in prisons.
Use Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data to explore inspection data for children’s social care, early years, further education and skills, non-association independent schools, initial teacher education providers and state-funded schools.
This framework and handbook document sets out Ofsted’s inspection principles, guidance and the main judgements that inspectors make when inspecting initial teacher education (ITE).
This framework sets out Ofsted's inspection principles and the main judgements that inspectors make.
Field inspection reports for the Genetic Modification Inspectorate deliberate release inspection programme in England.
Letters from the Department for Education to Ofsted and ISI in relation to the inspection of independent schools and joint working.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) report on a re-inspection of the administrative review process, July 2017.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects boarding schools and residential special schools.
Inspection outcomes of short inspections of maintained schools and academies between 1 September 2015 and 22 January 2016.
Ofsted investigation report looking at the longer term impact of school inspection.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting maintained schools and academies in England under the education inspection framework.
Commentaries on school inspection data.
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