• Find a children and families services inspection report
• Understanding a children and families services inspection report
• Types of children and families services Ofsted inspects
• Inspecting children and families services
  • Inspecting children's social care
  • Inspecting Cafcass
  • Inspecting local authority children's services
• Types of children and families services Ofsted regulates
• Regulating children and families services
• Safeguarding children
• About our survey reports
• How to complain

Inspecting children and families services

We inspect:

• adoption support agencies
• boarding schools
• Cafcass, the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service
• children’s homes
• local authorities
• local authority adoption agencies
• independent fostering agencies
• local authority fostering services
• local authority private fostering services
• residential family centres
• residential special schools
• secure establishments
• voluntary adoption agencies.