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Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
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.
Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
Find out what tasks you will have if you contract as an Ofsted inspector.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
An operational note for Ofsted inspectors who are carrying out summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts (MATs), also known as ‘trusts’.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working in the home where you look after children.
Ofsted’s guidance on quality assurance of online providers under the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
The framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) programmes in England.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children living with domestic abuse, and links to the inspection reports.
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’).
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting requirements.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting teaching of the protected characteristics during school inspections.
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