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Guidance for childcare providers on when you must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency, when you cannot register, and when you do not have to.
Use this service to complain to Ofsted about a state school, including academies and free schools.
If you are a childminder, you must tell Ofsted within 14 days about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home where you look after children. This includes children who turn 16. If you are a childminder without …
The next Ofsted chair has been announced as Dame Christine Gilbert.
All handbooks and frameworks for the remits that Ofsted inspects and/or regulates.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Find out when you must apply to register if you want to set up a daycare organisation for children.
Inspection data and information about the providers and places of children’s social care in England as well as inspections and inspection outcomes from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
How Ofsted regulates childcare and what parents should do if they have concerns about their provider.
Find out how to register with Ofsted as a nursery or other daycare, and what you will need to tell us about.
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