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IDSR: news and updates
News and information about updates for each inspection data summary report (IDSR) release, including any new functionality, features and bug fixes.
School inspection data summary report (IDSR) guide
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 how to interpret the data.
The registration visit
If you apply to join the Early Years Register, we will arrange a registration visit. This will normally take place once all your checks are complete, but could happen earlier. We do not routinely carry out a registration visit for providers on the Childcare Register only.
Childminders and childcare providers: register with Ofsted
Guidance for childminders, nannies, nurseries and people providing other childcare on when/if you need to register with Ofsted, the process, fees and requirements.
Ofsted Audit and Risk Assurance Committee minutes
Minutes from recent Ofsted Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC) meetings.
Non-association independent schools inspections and outcomes in England: August 2026
Provisional data for the period 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026.
Further education and skills inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2026
Data for inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2026 including data for inspections conducted under the renewed education inspection framework (EIF) between 10 November 2025 and 31 August 2026. This release also contains data for the period September 2025 to October 2025 under the original education inspection framework.
Teacher development: inspections and outcomes as at 31 August 2026
Official statistics covering initial teacher education (ITE) and inspections of early career framework (ECF) and national professional qualifications (NPQ) lead providers in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2026
Ofsted spending over £25,000 in 2026.
Ownership of children’s social care providers in England 2026
Information about the ownership of children’s social care in England as at 31 March 2026.
Fostering in England 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026
Fostering in England statistics for the period 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Area SEND inspections: information about ongoing inspections
Guides for parents, carers, children and young people about inspections of local services for children and young people with SEND.
Ofsted publishes annual report on Armed Forces initial training
Ofsted has today published its 18th annual report on the effectiveness of care, welfare and training arrangements for recruits, trainees and officer cadets in the Armed Forces.
Welfare and duty of care in Armed Forces initial training
Ofsted’s annual reports on the effectiveness of welfare and duty of care for recruits and trainees in Armed Forces initial training.
Childcare providers and inspections as at 31 August 2026
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2026.
Joint targeted area inspections of the response to younger children living with neglect
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to younger children living with neglect.
Joint inspections of local area services
Details of joint inspections (JTAIs) by Ofsted, Care Quality Commission, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services and HM Inspectorate of Probation.
Joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk
Guidance for inspectors carrying out a JTAI of the multi-agency response to the identification of initial need and risk (often referred to as the ‘front door’).
Ofsted and Care Quality Commission: shared principles for local government reorganisation
Shared principles that will guide Ofsted and Care Quality Commission’s approaches to inspections, assessments and other activity during local government reorganisation.
CQC annual report and accounts 2024 to 2025
Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual report and accounts for the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
New visits to report on the ‘local offer’ for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have today published guidance for the next series of area SEND thematic visits.
Area SEND thematic reviews
Reports on thematic visits of local area partnership arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
Thematic reviews of the SEND local offer
How Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will conduct thematic visits to local areas focusing on the education, health and social care provisions available for children and young people with SEND as outlined in the local offer.
Inspecting secure training centres: framework
The framework and evaluation schedule for inspection of secure training centres, for use from 1 April 2026.
Monitoring the Mental Health Act: 2024 to 2025
The Care Quality Commission’s annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Children not always recognised as domestic abuse victims in their own right, inspectorates warn
Children who are affected by domestic abuse are not being consistently recognised as victims despite this being set out in law, according to a new joint report by Ofsted, the CQC, HMICFRS, and HMIP.
The multi-agency response to children who are victims of domestic abuse
This report looks at how local partnerships and services respond to children who are at risk of, or who have been victims of, domestic abuse.
Joint targeted area inspections of the response to child sexual abuse in the family environment
Guidance for joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of the multi-agency response to child sexual abuse in the family environment.
The experiences of children with SEND who are not in school: a thematic review
What Ofsted and the CQC found about how partners in local areas support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) who are not in school.