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Official Statistics: Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2024

This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2024.

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Guidance: Introduction to adoption support agencies

What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an adoption support agency.

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Guidance: Registering a supported accommodation service

What providers need to know about the supported accommodation registration process before applying.

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Corporate report: Big Listen action monitoring reports

Ofsted’s monitoring reports on commitments made in the Big Listen and its response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.

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Press release: Ofsted publishes Big Listen action monitoring report and announces trials of new inspection approach

Ofsted has today published the first monitoring report on 132 commitments made in the Big Listen and the response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.

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Accredited official statistics: Fostering in England 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024

Fostering in England statistics for the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

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Corporate report: Big Listen action monitoring reports

Ofsted’s monitoring reports on commitments made in the Big Listen and its response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.

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Transparency data: Ofsted: non consolidated performance related payments

Data about non-consolidated performance-related payments that Ofsted makes each year to staff.

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Ofsted publishes autumn school inspector training materials

Ofsted has today published 3 additional recordings of school inspector training materials, following on from the first collection published earlier this term.

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Guidance: Ofsted Academy

Find Ofsted's training, learning and professional development publications.

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Guidance: Inspecting Cafcass: framework

The framework for Ofsted inspections of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).

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Guidance: Reporting changes to a supported accommodation service

What providers need to know before reporting changes to Ofsted.

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Guidance: Inspecting local authority children's services

Ofsted's framework and guidance for inspecting local authority services for children (ILACS) in need of help and protection, children in care and care leavers.

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Guidance: IDSR: news and updates

News and information about updates for each inspection data summary report (IDSR) release, including any new functionality, features and bug fixes.

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Guidance: School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide

This guide provides an overview of the inspection data summary report (IDSR) for primary and secondary schools, including schools with a sixth form and gives guidance on interpreting the data.

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Statistical data set: State funded school inspections and outcomes: management information

Management information aggregated and published monthly, and publications of inspections and outcomes from 2005 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019.

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Guidance: Guidance on writing complaint and compliance action outcome summaries

We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting requirements.

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Guidance: Guidance on writing complaint and compliance action outcome summaries

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We publish these summaries when we or the setting need to take action to ensure they are meeting requirements.

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Research: Independent review of artificial intelligence in education: terms of reference

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The government has asked Ofsted to carry out an independent review of artificial intelligence (AI) in education.

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Transparency data: Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2024

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Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2024.

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Statistical data set: Further education and skills inspections and outcomes: management information from September 2024 to August 2025

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Management information for further education and skills, showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes.

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Research: Ofsted research on artificial intelligence in education: terms of reference

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The government has asked Ofsted to carry out research on artificial intelligence (AI) in education.

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Corporate report: Ofsted annual report 2023/24: education, children’s services and skills

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Ofsted's annual report presents our findings for the areas we inspect in early years childcare, schools, further education and skills and children's social care.

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Press release: Ofsted annual report: education and social care serving most children well, but system pressures bite for most disadvantaged

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Most children are well-served by the education sector and, in social care, life-changing work is being done for children and young people every day.

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Guidance: Glossary of terms: Ofsted statistics

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Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.

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Official Statistics: Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024

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Data for inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024 including data for inspections conducted between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2024.

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Research: Five Year Ofsted Inspection Data

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Use Five-Year Ofsted Inspection Data to explore inspection data for children’s social care, early years, further education and skills, non-association independent schools, initial teacher education providers and state-funded schools.

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Chair of the Ofsted Board to step down next year

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Ofsted Chair Dame Christine Ryan has informed the Secretary of State of her intention to step down from the board in 2025.

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Transparency data: Ofsted workforce management information: 2024

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Data showing the number of staff employed at different grades in Ofsted and paybill information.

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Research: Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI): annual Ofsted report letters

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Annual Ofsted report letters on the inspection work by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI).

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Speech: Martyn Oliver's speech at the 2024 National Children and Adult Services Conference

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Sir Martyn Oliver, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, spoke at the annual National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC) in Liverpool.

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Ofsted to postpone initial teacher education inspection cycle

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Ofsted has postponed the start to its next initial teacher education (ITE) inspection cycle until the 2025/26 academic year, following a request by the Secretary of State for Education.

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Transparency data: Unregistered children’s homes

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Commentary on children’s social care settings that are not registered with Ofsted, the number of children placed in them, and the subsequent application rates of settings following regulatory action.

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Guidance: Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections

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Guides for parents, carers, children and young people about inspections of local services for children and young people with SEND.

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Corporate report: Ofsted Audit and Risk Assurance Committee minutes

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Minutes from recent Ofsted Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) meetings.

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Official Statistics: State funded schools inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2024

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Provisional data for the period January to August 2024 and revised data for the period September to December 2023.

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Statistical data set: Area SEND inspections and outcomes in England: management information summer term 2023 to 2024

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Management information for area SEND.

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Form: Ofsted annual fostering data collection

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Guidance and a suggested template for local authorities and independent fostering agencies to use when sending fostering data to Ofsted.

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Guidance: Inspecting registered childcare providers: information for parents

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How Ofsted regulates childcare and what parents should do if they have concerns about their provider.

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Official Statistics: Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2024

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This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2024.

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Independent report: Children and families' experiences of multi agency support when impacted by serious youth violence

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This report, produced by Safer London, shares children's and families' experiences of multi-agency support when impacted by serious youth violence.

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Promotional material: Ofsted's role in regulating childcare: poster for parents

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Childcare services can display this poster. It has information about our responsibilities and how parents can contact us.

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Guidance: Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections

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Guides for parents, carers, children and young people about inspections of local services for children and young people with SEND.

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Transparency data: Ofsted prompt payment data

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Data on how long it takes Ofsted to pay invoices.

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Transparency data: Ofsted Inspectors: lists

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Lists of Ofsted Inspectors.

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