Guidance and template for local authorities and independent fostering agencies to use when sending fostering data to Ofsted.
- How and when to submit research applications to ARSAC
- How to submit employer licence applications to ARSAC
- Promotional material: desider 2025
- Current Crown Commercial Service suppliers: what you need to know
- Form: Application for extension of pre-charge bail
- Correspondence: CMA letter to Barclays about breaching Part 5 of the Retail Banking Order (notified in October 2024)
- SMFLH / MRL merger inquiry
- Transparency data: CMA board: register of interests
- Investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct by Vifor Pharma in relation to intravenous iron treatments
- Aramark / Entier merger inquiry
Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2025.
Management information aggregated and published monthly, and publications of inspections and outcomes from 2005 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019.
Ofsted Board meeting minutes from 2024.
Management information for further education and skills, showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes.
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.
News and information about updates for each inspection data summary report (IDSR) release, including any new functionality, features and bug fixes.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for childminders.
Sir Martyn Oliver, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, spoke at the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) 2025 Winter Conference/AGM in London.
Management information aggregating in-year and most recent inspections and outcomes.
Sir Martyn Oliver, Ofsted's Chief Inspector, spoke at the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) 2025 Winter Conference/AGM in London.
Ofsted has sent surveys to social care providers to find out about the experiences of the children, parents, staff and professionals involved.
Guidance for social care providers about distributing the 2025 annual surveys and a promotional poster that they can use.
We're asking parents, carers, professionals and learners what they think about our proposals to improve education inspections and our new report cards for providers.
How Ofsted has implemented the education inspection framework (EIF) since it was introduced in 2019.
Ofsted is consulting on a new approach to inspecting education providers and the introduction of report cards.
How Ofsted has implemented the education inspection framework (EIF) since it was introduced in 2019.
How Ofsted has implemented the education inspection framework (EIF) since it was introduced in 2019.
This data is published on a regular basis. It gives the number of inspections and the outcomes for local authority, private and voluntary children's homes.
This annual dataset covers inspection of children’s social care and supported accommodation providers from 1 April to 30 September and regulatory activity in the children’s social care and supported accommodation sector from 1 January to 31 December.
Management information aggregating registered childcare providers and inspections and their outcomes.
Guides for parents, carers, children and young people about inspections of local services for children and young people with SEND.
Management information published 3 times a year in the interests of transparency.
Guidance for providers of childcare on domestic and non-domestic premises who want to expand their registered setting into new premises.
Data showing the number of staff employed at different grades in Ofsted and paybill information.
Details of expenses and hospitality incurred by our most senior officials.
Management information aggregated and published monthly, and publications of inspections and outcomes from 2005 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019.
Ofsted guidance on inspecting non-association independent schools in England under the education inspection framework.
This document provides guidance to help Ofsted inspectors in carrying out additional inspections of independent schools.
This report details the names and addresses for childminders and childcare on domestic premises, where the provider has consented for their name and address to be published on the Ofsted inspection report website.
News and information about updates for each inspection data summary report (IDSR) release, including any new functionality, features and bug fixes.
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.
This review explores how robust and reliable Ofsted’s EEG application is, including the guidance and processes for inspectors to follow if they encounter technical difficulties.
Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2024.
Management information aggregated and published monthly, and publications of inspections and outcomes from 2005 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019.
Ofsted has commissioned behavioural research and cognitive testing on how we can best hear from children, learners, parents, carers and provider staff during inspection.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects children's homes.
The letter of notice and form for further education college residential provision inspections from March 2023.
The letter of notice and Annex A (request for information) for residential holiday schemes for disabled children inspections.
The letter of notice, pre-inspection form and case list form for adoption support agencies inspections.
Management information for further education and skills, showing in-year and most recent inspection outcomes.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2024.
What you need to know about registering with Ofsted if you want to open or manage an adoption support agency.
What providers need to know about the supported accommodation registration process before applying.
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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