What we do

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills for learners of all ages.

Ofsted is a non-ministerial department.

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Documents

Our announcements

  1. Social care commentary: protecting disabled children

    • Authored article

  2. Statement on Al-Hijrah school judgement

    • Government response

See all our announcements

Our consultations

  1. Short inspections of good schools: maintained schools and academies

    • Open consultation

  2. Short inspections of good schools

    • Consultation outcome

See all our consultations

Our publications

  1. Ofsted: business appointment rules advice

    • Transparency data

  2. Early years providers who left the EYR, with full EYR inspection judgements, 1 June 2016 to 30 September 2017

    • Research and analysis

See all our publications

Our statistics

  1. Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2017

    • Official Statistics

  2. Children's social care data in England 2017

    • National Statistics

See all our statistics

Our management

Contact Ofsted

General enquiries

Our helpline is open from 8 am until 6 pm, Monday to Friday.

Complaints about schools and childminders

Complaints about other providers Ofsted inspects

About concerns

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
  3. Make a new request by contacting us at:

FOI requests for Ofsted

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

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