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Inspections of supported accommodation: information for supported lodgings hosts

Matthew Brazier, 18 September 2024 - inspectors, social care regulation, supported accommodation

From September 2024, Ofsted will inspect registered services that provide supported accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16 or 17. We want to make sure that services are helping young people and keeping them safe. And we …

Secure training centres – introducing assurance inspections

Yvette Stanley, 10 March 2023 - inspectors, secure training centres

From April 2023, we will be carrying out annual assurance inspections of secure training centres (STCs). These will be in addition to the full annual inspections we do with Care Quality Commission and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons. Since 2016, …

Piloting Ofsted Inspectors (OIs) in social care

Yvette Stanley, 23 September 2022 - inspectors, social care professionals

Yvette Stanley, our National Director for Regulation and Social Care, discusses plans to pilot the use of serving social care practitioners as Ofsted Inspectors (OIs). As an inspectorate and a regulator, we always want to learn from and draw on …

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