Guidance

Voluntary adoption agencies: inspection documents

For inspection from 1 April 2018. The letter of notice and form to complete (Annex A) for voluntary adoption agency inspections.

• From: Ofsted
• Published: 22 February 2017
• Last updated: 9 May 2025
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  1. 9 May 2025

     Updated the 'Annex A' pre-inspection data collection form to accurately show the period of data collection required.

  2. 10 January 2025

     Updated inspection notice letter.

  3. 23 March 2018

     Updated letter of notice and Adoption Annex A (previously referred to as the case list form).

  4. 22 February 2017

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Voluntary adoption agencies inspection: letter of notice

ODT, 403 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Adoption Annex A

ODS, 173 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Details

The letter and form are referred to in the social care common inspection framework.

Voluntary adoption agencies receive the letter notifying them of their inspection and then complete Annex A.