Ofsted social care research
Ofsted research about children’s social care.
Ofsted carries out research alongside its main inspection programme of providers.
The research programme serves a range of purposes. Depending on the subject chosen, our research provides an opportunity to focus on specific issues in greater detail than is possible during an institutional inspection.
Alternatively, it may explore an aspect that falls outside the current inspection framework, or may sample provision in areas of our remit that we do not currently inspect.
Research
- How groups of children’s homes work
- Research and analysis
- The education of children living in children’s homes
- Research and analysis
- Social care common inspection framework: implementation review
- Research and analysis
- Joint inspections of the response to child sexual abuse in the family environment
- Research and analysis
- Joint inspections of the response to children experiencing neglect
- Research and analysis
- Growing up neglected: a multi-agency response to older children
- Research and analysis
- Children in need and child protection: quality of early help and social work assessments
- Research and analysis
- Sexual exploitation of children: Ofsted thematic report
- Research and analysis
- Early help services: how well are they meeting children’s needs?
- Research and analysis
- Effective leadership of children’s services: joining the dots
- Research and analysis
- Looked after children living away from their home area: from a distance
- Research and analysis
- Professional responses to neglect: in the child’s time
- Research and analysis
- Private fostering: better understanding of local authority arrangements
- Research and analysis
- Independent reviewing officers: taking up the challenge?
- Research and analysis
- Joint working between adult and children’s services: what about the children?
- Research and analysis
- Missing children
- Research and analysis
- Services for deaf children: communication is the key
- Research and analysis
- The impact of virtual schools on the education of looked after children
- Research and analysis
- Protecting disabled children: thematic inspection
- Research and analysis
- Exploring delays in adoption: right on time
- Research and analysis
- Support for social workers
- Research and analysis
- How services prevent young people entering care: edging away from care
- Research and analysis
- Learning lessons from serious case reviews
- Research and analysis
- Good practice by local safeguarding children boards
- Research and analysis
- Commissioning young people’s services: evaluation of approaches
- Research and analysis
- Listening to children in serious case reviews
- Research and analysis
- Children’s homes providing short breaks
- Research and analysis
- Outstanding children’s homes
- Research and analysis
Published 15 May 2015
Last updated 28 October 2021 + show all updates
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Added new research ‘How groups of children’s homes work’.
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Added ‘Implementation review of the social care common inspection framework’ to collection.
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Published today: ‘Local area SEND inspections: one year on’.
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Added a link to survey inviting feedback on publications.
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First published.
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