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How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage 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 registered providers and managers on telling Ofsted about changes and how to apply for changes to any conditions of registration.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
How to refer a possible unregistered school to Ofsted for investigation.
Handbook for inspecting education, skills and work activities in prisons and young offender institutions.
Application forms to complete to register with Ofsted.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
Ofsted guides for parents about different types of early years settings and how they are inspected.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting the requirements for registration.
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.
Ofsted guidance for inspectors about how to inspect initial training for the UK Armed Forces relating to welfare and duty of care.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an independent fostering agency.
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