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children's homes

Ofsted’s social care point-in-time surveys close on 9 June

Yvette Stanley, 5 June 2019 - children looked after, children's homes, fostering, point in time survey, residential special schools

Our children's social care point-in-time surveys close on Sunday 9 of June - there's still time to give us your views!

Incident notifications: what social care providers need to tell us

Jason Bradbury, 29 March 2019 - children looked after, children's homes, fostering, social care professionals

Jason Bradbury, Deputy Director for Data and Insight, discusses incident notifications from social care providers regulated by Ofsted.

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

Helen Humphreys, 14 March 2019 - children's homes, residential special schools, social care professionals

Our specialist advisor for residential care, Helen Humphreys, discusses the common features of good and outstanding residential special schools.

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

Yvette Stanley, 1 March 2019 - children looked after, children's homes, fostering, inspection framework

Yvette Stanley, Ofsted's National Director for Social Care, discusses the first year of our common inspection framework.

Assessing risk in children's homes

Yvette Stanley, 24 September 2018 - children looked after, children's homes, social care professionals, social work

National Director for Social Care, Yvette Stanley, discusses what makes a good risk assessment.

About Ofsted - social care regulation and inspection blog

This blog looks at the way Ofsted inspects and regulates the social care sector: local authority children's services and social care providers, such as children's homes.

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