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Children and young people share their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, residential special schools, and living with foster carers.
Summary of findings This year, we received 48,240 survey responses from…
Ofsted’s annual reports on the effectiveness of welfare and duty of care for recruits and trainees in Armed Forces initial training.
Ministerial foreword The first duty of the UK government is to keep the…
Ministerial foreword The first job of any government is to keep our…
Ministerial foreword While technologies are reshaping the way Defence…
Ministerial foreword Defence exists to protect the people of the United…
Ministerial foreword This is the 13th Ofsted annual report into the…
Ministerial foreword This is the twelfth Ofsted annual report into the…
A report outlining findings from 78 thematic monitoring visits looking at the implementation of initial teacher education statutory guidance and other relevant themes.
Background and context In November 2024, the Secretary of State for…
A study of the local authority response to homeless children and young people.
Information about the evidence Ofsted used to inform its consultation response on its proposals to improve education inspections.
Statutory and non-statutory guidance, professional standards and relevant research that Ofsted reviewed to inform and develop the renewed education inspection framework and toolkits.
Complaints and notifications relating to registered early years providers over the past 5 years.
Use Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data to explore inspection data for children’s social care, early years, further education and skills, non-association independent schools, initial teacher education providers and state-funded…
Findings from our 2025 review of the area SEND inspection framework and how we will make sure it remains effective and in line with current needs and best practice.
A report on our findings during the first 2 years of inspecting local area partnerships under the current area SEND inspection framework.
Findings from research on conceptualising vulnerability commissioned by Ofsted and carried out by Research in Practice at the National Children's Bureau (NCB).
How schools and further education (FE) colleges are embedding AI and responding to some of the challenges and barriers identified in literature.
Commentaries on unregistered schools investigations.
An exploration of whether population census data and school census data can be used to derive realistic estimates of children missing education.
A theoretical model to help local authorities and other decision-makers plan new childcare provision under the 2025 childcare reforms.
A research report which looks at how early years practitioners care for and educate babies and toddlers.
Ofsted's findings on how further education providers are supporting students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to make career decisions.
This research into curriculum quality is part of a programme of evaluation assessing the education inspection framework (EIF).
Ofsted reports on the quality of the inspection work carried out by the inspectorates of British schools overseas.
How Ofsted has implemented the education inspection framework (EIF) since it was introduced in 2019.
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