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This explains how to get a Disclosure and Barring Service check if you are aged 16 or over and you live or work in a childcare setting.
Guidance for inspectors on how to decide when to inspect or visit without notice.
Guidance on using Ofsted's logos, plus copyright information.
Submit a complaint about an inspection, activity or incident involving Ofsted.
Your electronic device will need to meet certain specifications to allow you to work as an Ofsted inspector.
Find out what tasks you will have if you contract as an Ofsted inspector.
Ofsted's policy on how we regulate children's social care establishments and agencies explains what we may do if a provider is not following the regulations.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects secure children's homes.
These guidance documents outline how Ofsted uses artificial intelligence (AI) for its own work and set out how we look at AI during inspection and regulation.
Find out how you can still register with Ofsted if you provide childcare immediately before or after school for less than 2 hours in a day.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects boarding schools and residential special schools.
You will not be able to reset your Government Gateway credentials without the email address you used to create your account.
Guidance on registering and inspecting school-based early years and childcare provision with Ofsted.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with an independent fostering agency.
Ofsted’s safeguarding policy and guidance for inspectors on handling safeguarding disclosures.
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a residential family centre.
Guidance for inspectors on inspecting separation by sex in schools and the teaching of protected characteristics and relationships and sex education (RSE).
Details of Ofsted's programme of webinars to help familiarise providers with the November 2025 education inspection framework changes.
During full Ofsted school inspections, staff and pupils can give their views via an online survey. This page provides the questions for reference only.
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