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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 young people. Ofsted is a...
Search for Ofsted inspection reports for childminders and childcare providers, schools, colleges, further education providers, children and families services
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.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
All handbooks and frameworks for the remits that Ofsted inspects and/or regulates.
Guidance for childminders, nannies, nurseries and people providing other childcare on when/if you need to register with Ofsted, the process, fees and requirements.
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
Guidance on the conduct of inspectors and Ofsted's expectations of providers during inspection or wider regulatory activity.
Official statistics on the inspections and outcomes of maintained schools and academies in England.
Documents relating to Ofsted's inspections of maintained schools and academies.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.
Briefings on education recovery and how schools, prisons, early years providers and further education and skills providers are responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ofsted's Annual Report examines the quality of schools, early years, children's social care and further education and skills.
This toolkit explains Ofsted Parent View. Schools can use it to encourage parents and carers to share their experiences of their child’s school.
What social care providers need to know when notifying Ofsted of a serious incident.
Nannies registered with Ofsted must follow these requirements.
You must apply to register with Ofsted if you are the registered person, a registered individual or the nominated individual of a daycare.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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