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.

Read more about what we do

Documents

Our announcements

  1. Ofsted seeks views on future changes to short inspections

    • Press release

  2. Prevention and repair essential in domestic abuse cases

    • Press release

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. Inspections of unregistered schools: guidance for inspectors

    • Guidance

  2. Ofsted’s equality objectives 2016 to 2020

    • Corporate report

See all our publications

Our statistics

  1. Children's social care data in England 2017

    • National Statistics

  2. Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes official statistics as at 31 March 2017

    • Official Statistics

See all our statistics

Our management

Contact Ofsted

General enquiries

Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD

The helpline is open Monday to Friday from 8.00am to 6.00pm.

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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