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The home of Ofsted on GOV.UK. 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 service…
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What schools, registered early years providers and childminders need to know about delivering the early years foundation stage (EYFS), and Ofsted inspections under the education inspection framework (EIF).
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How we are planning school inspections to avoid strike days.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting maintained schools and academies in England under the education inspection framework.
Complain about a school - complaints process, when to complain to the Department for Education, the Education Funding Agency or Ofsted.
This framework sets out Ofsted's inspection principles and the main judgements that inspectors make.
How to make a complaint to Ofsted about services we inspect and/or regulate, or about Ofsted’s representatives or service.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting registered early years and childcare providers under the education inspection framework.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
This guide gives an overview of the inspection data summary report (IDSR) for primary and secondary schools, along with information to help interpret the charts.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
This guide gives a summary of what schools should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection.
Information about jobs at Ofsted, including the range of jobs on offer, working as an inspector and finding out about opportunities.
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting further education and skills providers under the education inspection framework.
Ofsted's new education inspection framework (EIF) applies to maintained schools and academies, non-association independent schools, further education and skills providers and early years settings.
Get extra funding for your early years childcare provider so they can provide better care for your child - early years pupil premium, disability access fund
A series of reviews by Ofsted looking at the research evidence currently available about different curriculum subjects.
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