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Provisional data for the period: September 2016 to March 2017 and revised data for the period: September 2015 to August 2016.
Final data for inspections conducted between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015.
Provisional data for the period September 2016 to August 2017 and revised data for the period September 2015 to August 2016.
Official statistics for independent school inspections and outcomes covering the period September 2014 to March 2015.
Provisional data for the period April to August 2019 and revised data for the period September 2018 to March 2019.
Ofsted uses questionnaires to capture views about social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools and living with foster carers and adopters.
This exploratory study investigates the steps that parents, local authorities and schools take in order to move children from secondary school to home education.
This report evaluates the extent to which the inspection of local authority children’s services (ILACS) framework has been implemented as intended.
Ofsted carried out a research project on knife crime in education. This report sets out our findings and recommendations.
Findings from online surveys conducted by YouGov on behalf of Ofsted on teachers' awareness and perceptions of Ofsted.
The report and analysis of teacher well-being across different roles and settings.
An investigation into multi-academy trusts: how their central vision and approaches influence day-to-day practice in schools and their impact.
These papers present the research evidence underpinning Ofsted's proposed education inspection framework.
These reports look into reliable and valid methods for inspectors to assess the quality of education using lesson observation and workbook scrutiny.
This research looks at teachers’ awareness of, and views about off-rolling. It was carried out by YouGov for Ofsted.
This report sets out the arguments and evidence for keeping Ofsted's existing 4-point grading system.
An overview of Ofsted’s work to review the implementation of the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
This short findings paper provides deeper insight into the data collected from Ofsted's research programme.
Inspection data and information about the providers and places of children’s social care in England and inspection outcomes for local authority children’s services.
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