Consultation outcome

Changes to Ofsted's statistical reporting on inspections and outcomes for children's homes and local authority children's services

From:
Ofsted
Published
25 February 2019
Last updated
21 May 2019 — See all updates

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting on inspections and outcomes for children’s homes and local authority children’s services: a report of the responses to the consultation

PDF, 156 KB, 7 pages

Detail of outcome

This is a report on the response to the consultation on our proposals for revisions to the frequency and content of social care inspection official statistics and management information. This report sets out the findings of the consultation and explains the changes that will be made.

The following changes will be introduced to our statistical reporting in summer 2019:

  • the period covered by the local authority and children’s homes official statistics will change from 6 months to 5 months. This is to align it with the period for other remits (types of provider we inspect) and with the period covered by the Ofsted Annual Report
  • the interactive tables will be removed from the underlying data
  • the frequency of publishing children’s homes management information will be reduced, from quarterly to biannually

Original consultation

Summary

This is a consultation on our proposals for revisions to the frequency and content of social care inspection official statistics and management information.

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Consultation description

This consultation seeks your views on our proposed revisions to the frequency and content of social care inspection official statistics and management information. We are proposing 3 changes to the children’s homes and local authority inspections and outcomes releases:

  1. Changing the period covered by the local authority and children’s homes official statistics from 6 months to 5 months; this is to align it with the period for other remits (types of provider we inspect) and with the period covered by the Ofsted Annual Report.

  2. Removing the interactive tables from the underlying data.

  3. Reducing the frequency of publishing children’s homes management information, from quarterly to biannually; however, quarterly data will still be available in the underlying datasets published alongside official statistics.

The consultation document and questionnaire

The consultation questionnaire is available for you to complete online. It can also be found at the back of the consultation document which is available in 2 formats:

  • the PDF version of the questionnaire can be filled in by hand
  • the Word version of the questionnaire can be filled in by hand or on your computer

Documents

Changes to Ofsted’s statistical reporting on inspections and outcomes for children’s homes and local authority children’s services

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Published 25 February 2019
Last updated 21 May 2019 + show all updates

  1. Report of responses to the consultation published.

  2. First published.

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