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You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working in the home where you look after children.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
Handbook for inspecting education, skills and work activities in prisons and young offender institutions.
Guidance for providers on registering a children’s home with Ofsted when the care and accommodation is provided in more than one building.
Information for local authority services, adoption and fostering agencies, residential centres and other children's social care services.
Ofsted’s guidance on quality assurance of online providers under the Online Education Accreditation Scheme.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can object if Ofsted intends to take steps that will affect their application or registration.
Application forms to complete to register with Ofsted.
How to refer a possible unregistered school to Ofsted for investigation.
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can appeal if Ofsted plans to take steps that will affect their registration.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse.
Joint targeted area inspection guidance on the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.
Situations when we can put your application on hold.
We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting the requirements for registration.
Ofsted's variation fees for children’s social care services.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in a residential family centre.
The framework and evaluation schedule for inspection of secure training centres, for use from 1 April 2025.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects residential provision of further education colleges.
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