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What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an adoption support agency.
Guidance for childminder agencies about the main activities carried out by inspectors. It also sets out the judgements that inspectors will make.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage a residential holiday scheme for disabled children.
How Ofsted will work with other organisations.
Form for financial reference for children's social care.
A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
The framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) programmes in England.
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.
Guidance for inspecting how well local areas support children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Ofsted's official statistics follow the standards defined in the UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice for Statistics.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects voluntary adoption agencies.
For inspection from 1 April 2018. The letter of notice and form to complete (Annex A) for voluntary adoption agency inspections.
This guide gives an overview of the inspection data summary report (IDSR) for initial teacher education (ITE) providers and inspectors.
Ofsted guidance for inspectors about how to inspect initial training for the UK Armed Forces relating to welfare and duty of care.
An operational note for Ofsted inspectors who are carrying out summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts (MATs), also known as ‘trusts’.
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas focusing on children who are not in school.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting teaching of the protected characteristics during school inspections.
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
Framework and guidance for joint targeted area inspections of local area services.
The framework outlines the responsibilities and procedures of Ofsted's Board, Chair and committees.
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