Updated: Handbook amended to reflect the revised registration guidance updated earlier this month. Also updated to explain that Ofsted doesn’t do joint visits with other agencies but that we may visit or inspect at the same time as another agency.
Ofsted uses this handbook in its regulation of adoption support agencies, children’s homes, holiday schemes for disabled children, independent fostering agencies, residential family centres and voluntary adoption agencies.
Providers, managers and interested parties can read it to understand Ofsted’s compliance processes.