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Ofsted’s guidance on quality assurance of online providers under the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
An operational note for Ofsted inspectors who are carrying out summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts (MATs), also known as ‘trusts’.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
Form for financial reference for children's social care.
Guidance for registered providers and managers on telling Ofsted about changes and how to apply for changes to any conditions of registration.
Ofsted guidance for inspectors about how to inspect initial training for the UK Armed Forces relating to welfare and duty of care.
Ofsted's official statistics follow the standards defined in the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
This guide gives an overview of the inspection data summary report (IDSR) for initial teacher education (ITE) providers and inspectors.
Framework and guidance for joint targeted area inspections of local area services.
Information for lead providers about what happens when Ofsted carries out early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) inspections.
The framework and evaluation schedule for inspection of secure training centres, for use from April 2019.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an adoption support agency.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting teaching of the protected characteristics during school inspections.
The method used by Ofsted to assess when to inspect further education and skills providers rated good or outstanding.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) in Solihull of local areas’ multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk.
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