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Guidance: Social care: Ofsted's enforcement policy

Ofsted

April 30
08:30 2024

This policy explains how we regulate certain types of childrens social care. It also sets out:

  • our powers under the law
  • what actions we can take if providers are not following the regulations
  • what we may do if we find out about unregistered provision
Published 15 October 2014
Last updated 30 April 2024 +show all updates
  1. See 'Summary of changes'.

  2. See 'Summary of Changes'.

  3. Updated with information about childrens homes that are also registered by the DfE as independent schools or approved as non-maintained special schools.

  4. Reviewed the content to make it more accessible and user-friendly (no change to our enforcement powers and general approach to regulation). See 'Summary of changes' for details.

  5. First published.

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