We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in a local authority area in England.
How Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) work together to inspect association independent schools with an early years registration.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure 16 to 19 academies.
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your independent school.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a voluntary adoption agency.
Guidance on how to report a security vulnerability on any Ofsted service or system.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
Letter that Ofsted sends to independent fostering agencies giving notice of inspection and asking for particular information.
Protocol for Ofsted’s working arrangements with approved independent inspection providers for British schools overseas.
What providers need to know about initial teacher education (ITE) inspections and what they need to provide to Ofsted.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to the criminal exploitation of children in a local authority area in England.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) in Solihull of local areas’ multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of local area services on children's mental health.
At the request of the Secretary of State for Education, Ofsted conducts pre-registration inspections of proposed free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges.
Guidance and methodology for Ofsted's thematic inspections of a sample of regional adoption agencies (RAAs).
For inspection from 1 April 2018. The letter of notice and form to complete (Annex A) for voluntary adoption agency inspections.
This accessibility statement is for our digital service to tell us about new adults in the home.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an adoption support agency.
The letter of notice, pre-inspection form and case list form for adoption support agencies inspections.
Advice note from Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, on the inspection of schools previously inspected by the Bridge Schools Inspectorate.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).