Reported COVID-19 notifications by registered early years and childcare settings
Data on the number of registered early years and childcare providers reporting one or more confirmed cases of COVID-19. Applies to England Documents Reported COVID-19…
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.
Report an unregistered school
How to refer a possible unregistered school to Ofsted for investigation. Applies to England Contents What is an unregistered school? Penalties for running an unregistered…
Ofsted: Lack of foster carers mean children missing out on support
A continued lack of capacity in the foster care sector is leading to vulnerable children missing out on the care and support they need, @Ofstednews…
Back into a routine: looking at schools, colleges and other providers in light of COVID
This is my first post as National Director (@Ofstednews), and it’s fitting to start with a thank you – to schools, colleges and other providers…
Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2021 to August 2022
Management information for further education and skills, showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes. Data will be updated monthly, around the 10th working day of…
Risk assessment methodology for good state-funded schools
This is the risk assessment process that Ofsted uses to assist in scheduling for inspections of good primary and secondary state-funded schools. Applies to England…
Ofsted launches consultation for children’s homes and residential holiday schemes
The consultation contains proposals on new inspection arrangements for children’s homes and residential holiday schemes. We have launched a consultation on new arrangements for interim…
Social care common inspection framework review: interim inspections of children’s homes and residential holiday schemes for disabled children
Applies to England Summary Ofsted seeks your views on proposed changes to the way they carry out interim inspections of children’s homes and…
Suspension of PGL settings on Ofsted childcare register
Ofsted finds serious safeguarding issues at 4 PGL settings and immediately suspends each of the registrations. This week we undertook inspections of 5 PGL centres…
Initial teacher education: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2022
Official statistics covering outcomes from initial teacher education inspections in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. These statistics will be released in November 2022
