Guidance

Social care: Ofsted's enforcement policy

Ofsted's policy on how we regulate children's social care establishments and agencies explains what we may do if a provider is not following the regulations.

From:
Ofsted
Published
15 October 2014
Last updated
29 February 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Social care enforcement policy

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Summary of changes

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Details

This policy explains how we regulate certain types of children’s social care. It also sets out:

  • our powers under the law
  • what actions we can take if providers are not following the regulations
  • what we may do if we find out about unregistered provision
Published 15 October 2014
Last updated 29 February 2024 + show all updates

  1. See 'Summary of Changes'.

  2. Updated with information about children’s homes that are also registered by the DfE as independent schools or approved as non-maintained special schools.

  3. Reviewed the content to make it more accessible and user-friendly (no change to our enforcement powers and general approach to regulation). See 'Summary of changes' for details.

  4. First published.

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