How to get reports not on our website

Updated 1 April 2008

Find out how to get inspection reports that are not available on our website.

Reports in different formats and langauges

We want people to be able to access this information. If you would like summary versions of our reports in different formats or languages, please contact us.

Reports written between inspections

Sometimes we make extra visits to care services in between inspections. This may be:

  • to follow up a problem found at the last inspection
  • in response to a complaint about the service
  • to support services that are struggling.

After the visit we write to the service to say what we found and to draw their attention to anything that needs to be improved.

Contact us if you would like copies of any of these letters.

Services recently registered under a new owner

A care service that has existed for some time and is taken over by a new owner will need to be inspected by us before an inspection report is available on our website.

To get copies of inspection reports completed for a previous owner of a care service, please contact us.

Services recently registered as a new service

Care services that have only recently registered as a new service will have not yet been inspected by us.

This means that no inspection reports will be available until after their first inspection has been completed, which is normally within the first year of their new registration.

Services no longer registered

When a care home or care service closes down we take it off our list of registered services.

To get copies of these inspection reports please contact us.

Still can't find the report you're looking for?

If you still can't find the inspection report for the care home or care service that you are looking for please contact us.

Go to our How we inspect page to find out about the different types of homes and services and how often we inspect them.

Children's services inspected by Ofsted

All children's services are now inspected by Ofsted.

Inspection reports for children services, except children's homes, are available on the Ofsted website: www.ofsted.gov.uk

Ofsted contact details for children's services

For all queries about children's services, contact Ofsted via the details below:

Ofsted National Business Unit
Royal Exchange Buildings
St Ann’s Square
Manchester M2 7LA

Telephone: 08456 404040

Email: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk 

Website: www.ofsted.gov.uk

Created: 4/7/2006 Last updated: 4/1/2008