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Social care surveys: what children and young people told Ofsted

Results of an annual survey carried out by Ofsted to highlight the views and experiences of children and young people in social care settings.

Every year, Ofsted works with social care providers to capture views about social care settings, including:

  • children鈥檚 homes
  • adoption and fostering services
  • residential family centres
  • boarding schools
  • residential special schools
  • further education colleges
  • supported accommodation

We publish our findings and data in the reports listed below.

If you are a provider planning to distribute the social care survey, please .

Children's social care survey reports

Updates to this page

Published 27 February 2019
Last updated 6 October 2025 show all updates
  1. Added 'Children鈥檚 social care questionnaires 2025: what children and young people told Ofsted'.

  2. 鈥楥hildren鈥檚 social care questionnaires 2024: what children and young people told Ofsted鈥 added.

  3. Added in the 2019 social care questionnaire

  4. First published.