Consultations
Ofsted has developed a user and stakeholder engagement strategy. It sets out how we will encourage and promote user engagement as a driver for improvement and how we will listen to our users, providers and stakeholders in all that we do.
We strive to listen carefully to users of the services we inspect and regulate and to all of our other stakeholders. Your views are therefore crucial in helping us to understand where we need to focus our efforts and to tell us what works and what doesn’t. In this section of our website, you can find out about, and comment upon, consultations currently under way.
We have two calendars on the right with the latest information about our consultations; they are updated regularly.
We are sharing these so that users, providers and stakeholders know our plans in advance, can see what Ofsted will be consulting on, how and when, and can read about what has happen as a result of consultation.
The calendars will be updated regularly. We will keep completed consultations, so people can refer back to the findings and see what action has been taken.
Inspection of local authority and voluntary adoption agencies
Closing date: 31 Aug 2011
This is a consultation document for adults and a separate consultation document for young people on proposals for a revised framework for the inspection of local authority and voluntary adoption agencies. Ofsted seeks the widest possible range of views from those who have an interest in, or expertise relating to, adoption in order to ensure that the inspection framework takes proper account of the needs and circumstances of all interested parties. We particularly want to hear from people who have been directly involved in the adoption process: from children and young people, from adopters, and from people who have sought to become adoptive parents, with or without success. Above all, the framework must assure the quality of services for children who are placed for adoption and for prospective adopters, and support their continuing improvement so that children grow up in secure and loving families.
Inspection of local authority fostering services and independent fostering agencies
Closing date: 31 Aug 2011
This is a consultation document for adults and a separate consultation document for young people on proposals for a revised framework for the inspection of local authority fostering services and independent fostering agencies. Ofsted seeks the widest possible range of views from those who have an interest in, or expertise relating to, fostering in order to ensure that the inspection framework takes proper account of the needs and circumstances of all interested parties. We particularly want to hear from people who have been directly involved in the fostering services: from children and young people, from parents and from foster carers. Above all, the framework must assure the quality of services for children and young people who are placed with foster carers, and support their continuing improvement.