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
How to observe a hearing as a journalist, researcher or member of the public.
When and how to observe someone carry out a task in their usual surroundings with their own equipment.
Guidance on the conduct of inspectors and Ofsted's expectations of providers during inspection or wider regulatory activity.
Earth Observation is the collection, analysis and presentation of information about planet Earth’s physical, chemical and biological systems via remote sensing technologies.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) monitor the treatment received by those detained in custody to confirm it is fair, just and humane, by observing the compliance with relevant rules and standards of decency. IMBs exist in every prison and Immigration Removal...
Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.
LISA is an ESA large class science mission in development. Due for launch in the mid-2030s, LISA will be the first space-based gravitational wave observatory.
How we carry out inspections of landlords
The Parole Board Observer Guidance has been completely revised and updated
This guide gives a summary of what schools should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection.
This guide gives a summary of what providers should expect and what they need to do as part of an Ofsted inspection.
These reports look into reliable and valid methods for inspectors to assess the quality of education using lesson observation and workbook scrutiny.
Guidance for quality monitors on how to conduct reception baseline assessment (RBA) quality monitoring visits, including completing the quality monitoring visit form.
This study aimed to develop a tool for observing the oral language environment of the classroom in reception, year 1 and year 2.
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).