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This page explains Ofsted report cards for your child's education or childcare, including a video and guidance on what's changed from the old system.
Guidance for inspectors and schools on inspecting maintained schools and academies in England under the renewed education inspection framework.
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This document sets out changes we have made to inspection guidance to…
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and y…
Guidance for inspectors and providers on inspecting registered early years settings in England under the renewed education inspection framework.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a children’s home or secure children’s home.
Search for Ofsted inspection reports for childminders and childcare providers, schools, colleges, further education providers, children and families services
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
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.
How to make a complaint to Ofsted about services we inspect and/or regulate, or about Ofsted’s representatives or service.
Ofsted has today published the first of our annual updates to the education inspection toolkits and operating guides.
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