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This is the risk assessment process that Ofsted uses when scheduling inspections of good state-funded primary and secondary schools.
This guide is for providers and commissioners to help them understand the registration requirements with CQC and Ofsted and when to register with one or both regulatory bodies.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an independent fostering agency.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage a residential family centre.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in a local authority area in England.
This guide explains how we select new schools and schools that undergo significant changes for inspection.
Ofsted's annual fees for children’s social care services.
You will not be able to reset your Government Gateway credentials without the email address you used to create your account.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a JTAI of the multi-agency response to the identification of initial need and risk (often referred to as the ‘front door’).
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
A leaflet for parents and carers of children whose school is due for inspection.
This document provides guidance to help Ofsted inspectors in carrying out additional inspections of independent schools.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
Introduction to Ofsted's role in registering childcare and the legal basis for our work.
This explains how to get the check you need to have if you are aged 16 or over and you live or work in a childminder's home.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Information for providers, parents and carers about what happens when we suspend a childcare provider’s registration.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
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