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The OEAS is a non-statutory scheme and the Department for Education (DfE) encourages all eligible providers to engage with the scheme on a voluntary basis. The scheme consists of 2 essential elements:

• the establishment of non-statutory standards for online education provisions
• the inspection of providers against these standards by Ofsted, acting as the quality assurance body appointed by the DfE

We will initially publish the management information for OEAS commissions on an ad hoc basis.

These figures are not official statistics.