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Restraint and restrictive practices: positive environments for children

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Text reads: 'Restraint and restrictive practices: positive environments for children'. Next to this, a child is sitting on her bed reading a book.

In this blog, I want to talk to providers of children’s homes, residential special schools and boarding schools about what we’re currently seeing on inspection when it comes to restraint and restrictive practices. I want to emphasise how important it …

Our response to the government's social care reform proposals

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The Department for Education (DfE) has published a policy paper on its proposals to reform children’s social care. This is a significant opportunity for the government, the sector and Ofsted to better serve the nation’s most vulnerable children. We have …

The importance of good planning for children moving on from the secure estate

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The children’s secure estate is a very important part of Ofsted’s work. Within Ofsted’s remit there are 13 secure children’s homes and one secure training centre. As well as inspecting secure children's homes and the secure training centre, we also …