We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Gives relevant professionals and the police an understanding of the female genital mutilation (FGM) mandatory reporting duty.
How educational and childcare settings should plan for and deal with emergencies, including significant public health incidents and severe weather.
Statutory guidance for local-authority-maintained schools carrying out duties for looked-after and previously looked-after children.
A guide for early years settings on the support system for children and young people with special educational needs and disability.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an independent fostering agency.
A parent and carer’s guide on the safeguarding arrangements you should expect from activity clubs, tutors and coaches.
Form to send to Ofsted to cancel your registration.
A framework to equip children and young people for digital life
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.
Set up additional security features on your Government Gateway account
Statutory guidance on the planning, commissioning and delivery of health services for looked-after children.
Guide to the regulations on providing supported accommodation for children and young people. It includes the quality standards that all supported accommodation providers must meet.
A guide for inspectors about physical intervention and restrictions of liberty.
You will need your Government Gateway user ID in order to use certain Ofsted services.
How local authorities should collect data from social care services to complete the annual children in need census.
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.
Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2025 to 2026.
Guidance for safeguarding partners and child protection professionals on what the panel does and how it works.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).