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Guidance for childminders, nannies, nurseries and people providing other childcare on when/if you need to register with Ofsted, the process, fees and requirements.
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and y…
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You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
A series of reviews by Ofsted looking at the research evidence currently available about different curriculum subjects.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Find out how to register with Ofsted as a nursery or other daycare, and what you will need to tell us about.
Lists of Ofsted Inspectors.
Apply to register a children’s home, adoption or fostering agency, residential family centre or residential holiday scheme.
The requirements you need to follow if you register with Ofsted to look after children.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Guidance for childminders, nannies and other registered childcare providers with examples of what Ofsted considers to be a significant event.
Guidance for childcare providers on when you must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency, when you cannot register, and when you do not have to.
You will need to follow a specific procedure if you want to contract as an Ofsted inspector.
Ofsted's education inspection framework (EIF) applies to maintained schools and academies, non-association independent schools, early years settings, further education and skills providers, prisons and young offender in…
All handbooks and frameworks for the remits that Ofsted inspects and/or regulates.
Ofsted's policy for considering whether to defer or pause an inspection or visit, or whether additional evidence needs to be gathered.
Submit a complaint about an inspection, regulatory event or incident involving Ofsted.
Most childcare providers looking after children under the age of 8 must register with Ofsted (or a childminder agency). Find further information on when you do not have to register with Ofsted.
Reset your password on your Government Gateway account so you can access Ofsted services.
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