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Ofsted publishes two good practice reports for college courses

The two latest reports take a look at good practice in colleges in hospitality and catering, hairdressing and beauty therapy.

  • 27 Mar 2009

The quality and impact of youth work

Engaging young people draws upon evidence from local authority youth services inspections which took place as part of Ofsted’s joint area reviews of children’s and young people’s services from 2005 to 2008.

  • 25 Mar 2009

The development of new inspection frameworks

In April 2007 the new Ofsted brought together 39 different regulatory and inspection systems, each with its own processes, and although many of these were similar, there was significant variation in how we inspected across the various remits.

We have reviewed our practices and produced a framework to promote improvement in the services we inspect, improve engagement with providers and users, provide greater consistency and integration to our inspection and regulation and target inspection resources where they will have the greatest impact.

  • 09 Mar 2009

Leading to excellence

Ofsted's latest report on early years and childcare focuses on leadership and management.

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