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You may use and re-use information on Ofsteds GOV.UK website (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium under the terms of the Open Government Licence. Please reference the source of the information, including a hyperlink.

You should send any enquiries about the use and re-use of any GOV.UK information to: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk. For any Ofsted-specific queries, please contact Ofsteds Content team: contentteam@ofsted.gov.uk.

Ofsted logos

All Ofsted logos are protected under Crown Copyright. You should follow our guidance on logo use carefully and should not edit the logos in any way. We take misuse of our logos seriously and will follow up on anyone misusing them, especially if this is misleading the public.

We have 4 categories of logo. Any other logos that are in circulation, such as Ofsted approved or Ofsted registered logos, are unofficial and should not be used.

The main Ofsted logo

You cannot use our main logo, unless in exceptional circumstances and with our express permission.

We only permit specific third parties to use our logo when we are co-hosting events or co-authoring publications with them. This is because the logo is seen as our endorsement. If you are working with us in this way, please contact Ofsteds Content team about the logo: contentteam@ofsted.gov.uk.

Our role is to inspect and regulate providers of education and care. We do not approve or endorse any third-party training courses, software packages, first aid courses or companies in any way. The presence of the Ofsted logo or name on any other website, publication or product should not be taken as endorsement or approval of any kind by Ofsted.

We take logo misuse or misrepresentation of our name by any third parties very seriously, including any claims that the third party or their products are Ofsted approved, are Ofsted endorsed or meet Ofsteds requirements.

Ofsted outstanding and good logos

We have specific outstanding and good logos available for those we inspect. We give permission for those that we have graded as outstanding or good at their latest inspection to use the relevant logo.

If you have achieved one of these grades at your last inspection, you can download your outstanding or good logo. The download includes guidance on how to use it.

If you have not yet been inspected or if you have not been graded outstanding or good at your last inspection, you cannot use any logo. However, there is a temporary exception to this for some schools in the 2024/25 academic year. From September 2024, we no longer give overall effectiveness grades when we do graded inspections of schools. We instead give a set of grades for different inspection areas (you can read more about this in the school inspection handbook). This means that schools will no longer have any overall grade when we next inspect them. For the 2024/25 academic year, its fine for schools that were previously good or outstanding to carry on using their former good or outstanding logo, unless we judge them to have serious weakness or to require special measures. We will update our logo terms of use in future.

The most important thing when using one of our logos is to not mislead the public, intentionally or otherwise. You must not falsely imply that you are graded as outstanding or good by using a logo.

If you have a website that covers more than one provision, for example a chain of nurseries, a group of childrens homes or a multi-academy trust, you must be clear which provision any logos that you use relate to. You can put a good logo on, for example, a specific page about a good nursery in your chain, but not in the header or footer of the whole website when it covers other nurseries that do not have this grade.

If you have previously been judged as outstanding or good but you have not been graded either of these at your last inspection, you must remove your previous logos from your websites, banners and other marketing materials (please note the exception for some schools, as explained above).

If your provision has closed and you reopen it under a new unique reference number (URN), your original provision ceases to exist in law and is replaced by a new and distinct legal entity. As a result, the inspection history and outcomes of the predecessor provision cannot, in law, transfer to the new one and you cannot continue to use any previous logos attached to the original URN.??

Ofsted Parent View logo

Were keen that schools and other education providers link to Ofsted Parent View to encourage parents and carers to complete the questionnaire. This includes the option to embed the Ofsted Parent View logo on their website.

Ofsted effective childminder agency logos

If you run a childminder agency that was judged effective at its most recent inspection, you may start using our childminder agency effective logo to show this achievement. Please contact Ofsteds Content team for this logo: contentteam@ofsted.gov.uk.

If you were previously judged as effective, but you have not retained that outcome at your last inspection, you must remove the logo from your website/banners/marketing materials.