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A guide to the use, storage and sharing of information about children in care homes.
How Ofsted will work with other organisations.
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas focusing on children who are not in school.
Ofsted guidance for inspectors about how to inspect initial training for the UK Armed Forces relating to welfare and duty of care.
Guidance for inspectors on carrying out joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of local area services, and links to the inspection reports.
Guidance for children's social care providers about distributing the 2026 annual survey, including a promotional poster that they can use.
Letter that Ofsted sends to independent fostering agencies giving notice of inspection and asking for particular information.
Guidance for inspectors and investigators of unregistered independent schools.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection (JTAI) of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in a local authority area in England.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas to look at alternative provision.
The framework and handbook for inspecting lead providers of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualification (NPQ) programmes in England.
How to register with Ofsted and apply to open, manage, or be associated with a voluntary adoption agency.
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to the criminal exploitation of children in a local authority area in England.
The letter of notice and form for further education college residential provision inspections from March 2023.
Advice for social care providers about how they may arrange for Ofsted inspectors to review records held on electronic systems.
Framework and guidance for joint targeted area inspections of local area services.
The framework for Ofsted inspections of Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service).
Protocol for Ofsted’s working arrangements with approved independent inspection providers for British schools overseas.
Ofsted's policy on carrying out directed surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000 to prevent or detect a crime.
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