Detailed guide: Disclosure and Barring Service: guidance for children’s social care providers and managers
What Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks you need to have in place and how Ofsted will check the use of the DBS checks and…
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Official Statistics: Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 30 June 2019
Official statistics covering outcomes from initial teacher education inspections in the 2018 to 2019 academic year. Documents Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at…
Speech: HMCI commentary: the roles of inspection and autonomy
Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman, discusses accountability and autonomy and how you cannot have one without the other. Please note that this was originally published…
Ofsted is changing how it inspects schools and colleges: Introducing the new education inspection framework
Following a consultation, we will inspect using our new education inspection framework (#EIF) from September 2019. The new framework sets out how we will inspect:…
The nuance of reliability studies
The nuance of reliability studies The nuance of reliability studies Posted by: Amy Finch, Head of Strategic Evaluation, Posted on: 20 August 2019 – Categories:…
Research and analysis: Annual teachers survey
Findings from online surveys conducted by YouGov on behalf of Ofsted on teachers’ awareness and perceptions of Ofsted. Documents Annual teachers survey 2019: teachers’ awareness…
Transparency data: Consented addresses for childminders and domestic childcare
This report details the names and addresses for childminders and childcare on domestic premises, where the provider has consented for their name and address to…
Statistical data set: Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2018 to August 2019
Management information showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes. Data will be updated monthly, around the 10th working day of each month. We do not…
Form: Tell Ofsted about an incident: children’s social care notification form
Online form for adoption or fostering agencies, children’s homes and residential family centres. Downloadable form for residential holiday schemes for disabled children. Documents Online notification…
Guidance: Inspecting local authority children’s services from 2018
Ofsted’s framework and guidance for inspecting local authority services for children in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers. Documents Framework,…