Ofsted launches point-in-time surveys

Ofsted has sent surveys to social care providers to find out about the experiences of the children, parents, staff and professionals involved.

Ofsted has today (Tuesday 4 February) issued its annual point-in-time online surveys for the following social care providers:

• residential special schools
• further education colleges with residential provision
• children's homes (includes secure children's homes and residential special schools registered as children's homes)
• fostering agencies (includes independent fostering agencies and local authority fostering agencies)
• adoption agencies (includes voluntary adoption agencies and regional adoption agencies)
• adoption support agencies
• residential family centres
• boarding schools
• supported accommodation

We highly value the responses we receive. They help to both inform future inspections and build a national picture of people's experiences with their respective providers. We have a blog post explaining how we use the responses.