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How a prospective or registered childcare provider can appeal if Ofsted plans to take steps that will affect their registration.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
Ofsted's annual fees for children’s social care services.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an adoption support agency.
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
If you are on the Early Years Register, we will carry out regular inspections. We inspect 10% of providers only on the Childcare Register each year.
Guidance for inspectors on how to make this decision and the process to follow.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
Guidance on the education inspection approach to providers’ and inspectors’ duties under the Equality Act 2010.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects boarding schools and residential special schools.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
Ofsted’s guidance on quality assurance of online providers under the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working with you where you look after children.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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