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How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an adoption support agency.
Handbook for inspecting education, skills and work activities in prisons and young offender institutions.
Guidance for inspectors on how to make this decision and the process to follow.
Ofsted's annual fees for children’s social care services.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects boarding schools and residential special schools.
Introduction to Ofsted's role in registering childcare and the legal basis for our work.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Ofsted's official statistics follow the standards defined in the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics.
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.
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a JTAI of the multi-agency response to the identification of initial need and risk (often referred to as the ‘front door’).
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working with you where you look after children.
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.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Annex A form for residential family centres to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
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