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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
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
This guide gives a summary of what schools should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection.
Guidance on the conduct of inspectors and Ofsted's expectations of providers during inspection or wider regulatory activity.
Find out what information you will need to create and use a Government Gateway account so that you can use Ofsted's services.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.
Ofsted carries out research alongside its main inspection programme to look at specific issues, subjects or policies in more detail.
Ofsted's Annual Report examines the quality of schools, early years, children's social care and further education and skills.
What social care providers need to know when notifying Ofsted of a serious incident.
Ofsted research about children's social care.
Documents relating to Ofsted's inspections of maintained schools and academies.
This toolkit explains Ofsted Parent View. Schools can use it to encourage parents and carers to share their experiences of their child’s school.
Ofsted’s new Chief Inspector will pledge to put the interests of disadvantaged children at the heart of future reforms, as he launches a major public consultation on Ofsted’s work.
Guidance on inspecting further education and skills providers, including short inspections, safeguarding, our handbook and inspections of training in prisons.
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.
Guidance for childminders, nannies, nurseries and people providing other childcare on when/if you need to register with Ofsted, the process, fees and requirements.
We publish data and statistics on early years and childcare, schools, further education and skills, teacher development and children and families' services inspections and outcomes.
A collection of Ofsted's Annual Reports, which set out our findings for the areas we inspect.
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