Register as a children's social care provider: 'fit/suitable person' assessment questionnaires
Forms for assessing your fitness or suitability to be a children's social care provider. There are separate forms for children's homes.
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If you are applying to register with Ofsted because you are connected with a children’s social care establishment or agency, you will need to complete a ‘fit person’ or ‘suitable person’ questionnaire.
There are separate questionnaires depending on:
- whether you are joining a children’s home or another type of establishment or agency
- whether you are applying to be a registered manager or the responsible individual/registered provider
Children’s homes
- Children’s homes: fit person questionnaire for someone applying to be a registered manager
- Children’s homes: suitable person questionnaire for someone applying to be a registered provider or responsible individual
Other children’s social care providers
The registered manager questionnaire helps Ofsted assess your fitness to be registered as a manager of:
- an adoption support agency
- an independent fostering agency
- a residential family centre
- a holiday scheme for disabled children
The registered provider or responsible individual questionnaire helps Ofsted assess your suitability to be registered as a provider of:
- a voluntary adoption agency
- an adoption support agency
- an independent fostering agency
- a residential family centre
- a holiday scheme for disabled children
Last updated 2 November 2018 + show all updates
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Updated to highlight that applicants must use their own words to complete the forms.
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Updated to reflect the social care common inspection framework.
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Separate forms for children's homes published
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First published.