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First combined official statistics release following a consultation on the presentation of social care statistics.
Early years inspections and outcomes, including actions and recommendations at inspection.
Ofsted reports improvement in the quality of assessment for vulnerable children.
Annual Ofsted report letters on the quality of inspections and reports by the School Inspection Service (SIS).
Evidence from assurance visits to children’s homes between 1 and 11 September.
Today, at the National Association of Headteacher’s (NAHT) Annual conference, Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, announced changes to ungraded inspections.
From 21 February, childcare providers do not have to notify Ofsted of any COVID-19 cases at their setting, whether in staff or children.
Ofsted has today published a report exploring early years provision in an international context.
Ofsted’s new Chief Inspector will pledge to put the interests of disadvantaged children at the heart of future reforms, as he launches a major public consultation on Ofsted’s work.
Ofsted has today published a subject report looking at how mathematics is being taught in England’s schools.
Ofsted Board meeting papers and minutes from 2017.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI to the Secretary of State for Education on school inspections in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI to the Secretary of State for Education on no-notice school inspections.
What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, living with foster carers and staying at residential special schools.
These statistics are published in accordance with Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation.
All handbooks and frameworks for the remits that Ofsted inspects and/or regulates.
Find out how to register with Ofsted as a childminder, and what you will need to tell us about.
If you are on the Early Years Register, we will carry out regular inspections. We inspect 10% of providers only on the Childcare Register each year.
You must tell Ofsted about the premises you want to include in your application to register a nursery or other daycare organisation.
Ofsted has published the fifth in a series of reviews into different subjects across the curriculum. The latest review looks at geography education.
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