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If you are on the Early Years Register, we will carry out regular inspections. We inspect 10% of providers only on the Childcare Register each year.
How to refer a possible unregistered school to Ofsted for investigation.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
皇冠体育app framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) programmes in England.
皇冠体育app method used by Ofsted to assess when to inspect further education and skills providers rated good or outstanding.
Framework and guidance for joint targeted area inspections of local area services.
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas focusing on children who are not in school.
A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
皇冠体育app framework for Ofsted inspections of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of local area services, and links to the inspection reports.
Form for financial reference for children's social care.
Ofsted guidance for inspectors about how to inspect initial training for the UK Armed Forces relating to welfare and duty of care.
Ofsted's official statistics follow the standards defined in the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics.
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
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.
How Ofsted will work with other organisations.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can object if Ofsted intends to take steps that will affect their application or registration.
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
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