Guidance and regulation

Set up additional security features on your Government Gateway account

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 7 July 2020

Advice for local areas to embed working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2023

This guidance explains what providers of children’s homes must do under the law when recruiting and employing staff.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 15 June 2023

Ofsted's framework and guidance for inspecting local authority services for children (ILACS) in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 5 April 2024

How to share concerns about children’s social care services with Ofsted, including whistleblowing, and what we will do with the information.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 20 September 2019

You can use this service to register your interest in contracting as an Ofsted inspector.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 3 February 2023

You must tell Ofsted about changes to certain people in your organisation or to your premises.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 1 July 2021

Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an independent fostering agency.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 October 2023

Guidance for social care providers about distributing the 2024 annual surveys and a promotional poster that they can use.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 5 February 2024

How local authorities should notify incidents to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.

• From: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and 2 others
• Updated: 21 February 2019

Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 27 May 2020

Ofsted's policy on how we regulate children's social care establishments and agencies explains what we may do if a provider is not following the regulations.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 18 October 2019

You will need your Government Gateway user ID in order to use certain Ofsted services.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 7 July 2020

What providers need to know about the process of connecting people to a supported accommodation service.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 4 April 2023

Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a supported accommodation service.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 26 October 2023

Annex A form for children's homes and secure children's homes to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 5 April 2024

Volume 1: statutory guidance about court orders and the roles of the police and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service.

• From: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 April 2014

Form to send to Ofsted to cancel your registration.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 18 December 2023

Guidance on how Ofsted inspects independent fostering agencies.

• From: Ofsted
• Updated: 5 April 2024