Changes to Ofsted's statistical reporting on inspections and outcomes for children's homes and local authority children's services

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Proposals

This consultation seeks your views on the new arrangements that we propose for reporting on the outcomes of inspections of children’s homes and local authority children’s services. Your contribution will help to refine and develop these statistics to meet users’ needs.

We are proposing three changes to the children’s homes and local authority inspections and outcomes releases, namely:
  • changing the period covered by the local authority and children’s homes official statistics from six months to five months; this is to align it with the period for other remits (types of provider we inspect) and with the period covered by the Ofsted Annual Report
  • removing the interactive tables from the underlying data
  • reducing the frequency of publishing children’s homes management information, from quarterly to biannually; however, quarterly data will still be available in the underlying datasets published alongside official statistics.

Supporting documentation

The consultation document, is available from the Ofsted website, please refer to it when completing the survey.

Closing date

The closing date for this consultation is 29 March 2019.
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