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Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, spoke at the 2026 Festival of Education in Berkshire.
After serious safeguarding concerns at a Bright Horizon nursery came to light in September 2025, Ofsted began an extensive programme of regulatory activity across the 247 nurseries in the Bright Horizons group.
Ofsted has today outlined a change in its approach to tackling unregistered children’s homes, designed to stop unsafe and unlawful placements and to address issues of sufficiency in the children’s social care system.
Ofsted research about children's social care.
An analysis of children’s social care sufficiency in England.
Guide for local authorities and providers on when Ofsted will prioritise an application to register a children’s home.
Yvette Stanley, National Director, Regulation and Social Care, on Ofsted’s latest work to prevent children being placed in unregistered homes.
Statistics from Ofsted on inspections of local area services for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Inspection data and information about the providers and places of children’s social care in England as well as inspections and inspection outcomes from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Ofsted Board meeting minutes from 2026.
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