Inspection of further education and skills providers

How Ofsted supports and inspects teaching and training. Minimum standards for schools and colleges, inspection handbook, pre-registration inspections.

Guidance and regulation

Further education and skills inspection handbook
- Guidance
- 5 April 2024
- Ofsted
How to become a contracted Ofsted inspector
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2023
- Ofsted
Inspecting further education and skills: guide for providers
- Detailed guide
- 1 September 2022
- Ofsted
Contracted Ofsted inspectors for schools and further education and skills
- Detailed guide
- 19 January 2022
- Ofsted
Tell Ofsted you want to contract as an inspector
- Detailed guide
- 3 February 2023
- Ofsted

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News and communications

Ofsted warns of risk to children ‘out of sight’ during pandemic
- 1 December 2020
- Ofsted
- Press release
Ofsted seeks to make oversight of subcontractors more comprehensive and transparent
- 16 September 2020
- Ofsted
- Press release
Termination warning notice to King Solomon International Business School
- 5 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
Amanda Spielman at the 2019 Annual Apprenticeships Conference
- 27 March 2019
- Ofsted
- Speech
Amanda Spielman's speech at the 2019 ASCL annual conference
- 16 March 2019
- Ofsted
- Speech

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Research and statistics

Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2023
- 17 November 2023
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
Independent review of careers guidance in schools and further education and skills providers
- 29 September 2023
- Ofsted
- Research
Further education and skills inspections: statistical commentaries 2022 to 2023
- 15 June 2023
- Ofsted
- Research
Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
- 24 November 2022
- Ofsted
- Official statistics
Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2018
- 21 September 2020
- Ofsted
- Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Better inspection for all
- 3 February 2015
- Ofsted
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 December 2014

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Responses to post-inspection surveys: inspections and visits between 1 September 2019 and 31 March 2020
- 24 July 2020
- Ofsted
- Transparency
Further education and skills FOI request datasets: 2015 and 2016
- 26 January 2016
- Ofsted
- Foi release
Review of post-16 provision in North East Norfolk and North Suffolk
- 20 July 2015
- Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency, Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Closed organisation: Skills Funding Agency, and Department for Education
- Transparency
Further education and skills FOI request datasets: 2013 and 2014
- 5 January 2015
- Ofsted
- Foi release
Ofsted Annual Report 2009/10
- 23 November 2010
- Ofsted
- Corporate report

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Organisations

Department for Education

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