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Guidance on how Ofsted inspects independent fostering agencies.
Guidance on registering and inspecting school-based early years and childcare provision with Ofsted.
We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting the requirements for registration.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential family centre.
Introduction to Ofsted's role in registering childcare and the legal basis for our work.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.
The provider portal allows Ofsted and the provider to share documentation during an inspection.
Find out how you can still register with Ofsted if you provide childcare immediately before or after school for less than 2 hours in a day.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential family centres.
This guide is for providers and commissioners to help them understand the registration requirements with CQC and Ofsted and when to register with one or both regulatory bodies.
These guidance documents outline how Ofsted uses artificial intelligence (AI) for its own work and set out how we look at AI during inspection and regulation.
Our privacy notices set out what data we collect, what we do with it, how long we keep it for and your rights under the Data Protection Act 2018.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting separation by sex in schools and the teaching of protected characteristics and relationships and sex education (RSE).
Your electronic device will need to meet certain specifications to allow you to work as an Ofsted inspector.
Handbook for inspecting education, skills and work activities in prisons and young offender institutions.
What Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks you need to have in place and how Ofsted will check the use of the DBS checks and certificates on inspection.
Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.
You will not be able to reset your Government Gateway credentials without the email address you used to create your account.
Details of Ofsted's programme of webinars to help familiarise providers with the November 2025 education inspection framework changes.
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