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Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse.
Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
An operational note for Ofsted inspectors who are carrying out summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts (MATs), also known as ‘trusts’.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can appeal if Ofsted plans to take steps that will affect their registration.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can object if Ofsted intends to take steps that will affect their application or registration.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
Annex A form for residential family centres to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
How Ofsted will work with other organisations.
This guide gives an overview of the inspection data summary report (IDSR) for initial teacher education (ITE) providers and inspectors.
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
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.
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