Ofsted and Care Quality Commission: shared principles for local government reorganisation

This policy paper sets out the shared principles that will guide Ofsted and Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) approaches to inspections, assessments and other activity during local government reorganisation.

This includes:

• Ofsted’s Inspecting Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) framework
• Ofsted and CQC’s Area SEND inspection framework (ASEND)
• CQC’s assessment framework for local authority assurance