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Incident notifications: what social care providers need to tell us

Posted by: Jason Bradbury, Posted on: 29 March 2019 - Categories: children looked after, children's homes, fostering, social care professionals
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Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director for Data and Insight, discusses incident notifications from social care providers regulated by Ofsted.

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What are the common features of the best residential special schools?

Posted by: Helen Humphreys, Posted on: 14 March 2019 - Categories: children's homes, residential special schools, social care professionals
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Our specialist advisor for residential care, Helen Humphreys, discusses the common features of good and outstanding residential special schools.

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Implementing the social care common inspection framework - how did we do?

Posted by: Yvette Stanley, Posted on: 1 March 2019 - Categories: children looked after, children's homes, fostering, inspection framework
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Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's National Director for Social Care, discusses the first year of our common inspection framework.

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