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Guidance for providers, social workers and placement commissioners on placing children, subject to a deprivation of liberty order (DoL), in unregistered settings.
The letter of notice and form for further education college residential provision inspections from March 2023.
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas to look at alternative provision.
The method used by Ofsted to assess when to inspect further education and skills providers rated good or outstanding.
Guidance for social care providers about distributing the 2025 annual surveys and a promotional poster that they can use.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a voluntary adoption agency.
Letter that Ofsted sends to independent fostering agencies giving notice of inspection and asking for particular information.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of local area services, and links to the inspection reports.
Information for lead providers about what happens when Ofsted carries out early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) inspections.
Guidance for Ofsted inspectors on talking to pupils during school inspections.
Guidance for Ofsted inspectors when they find separation by sex on an inspection.
The framework for Ofsted inspections of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage a voluntary adoption agency.
At the request of the Secretary of State for Education, Ofsted conducts pre-registration inspections of proposed free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges.
How Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) work together to inspect association independent schools with an early years registration.
Annex A form for residential family centres to fill in ahead of inspections under the social care common inspection framework (SCCIF).
This accessibility statement is for our register as a nanny digital service.
Guidance on the registration of an independent fostering agency branch.
Protocol for Ofsted’s working arrangements with approved independent inspection providers for British schools overseas.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) in Solihull of local areas’ multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk.
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