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Built on 44,769 published Ofsted inspection reports

Are you ready to walk into every inspection knowing what matters?

See what each inspector looks for, hear the day a report lands, and turn it into actions your team can close.

Subscribe to the free Weekly Bulletin Check your inspection readiness
Thirteen quick questions on how ready your home is for Ofsted. About a minute, no account needed.

Built on the full public record

Every inspector, every home and the sector picture, drawn from every published Ofsted children's home inspection and refreshed each day.

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4,915homes covered
44,769inspection reports
9quality standards
Dailyrefresh from Ofsted

Everything you need before the inspector arrives

Four tools, one record. Start with the free Weekly Bulletin and add the rest when you are ready.

Inspector history and reports

Search any Ofsted inspector and see the grades they actually award, how that compares with the national picture, and the themes they return to in report after report.

  • Every grade an inspector has awarded, with the count behind it
  • The standards they write about most
  • Know what to expect before they walk in, never how to game them
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app.childrenshomesiq.co.uk/inspector-insights
Inspector Insights
Rachel Okoro 42 inspections
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Rachel Okoro
His Majesty's Inspector, North West
64% Good or better
Grades awarded (vs national average)
Outstanding▲ Good▼ Requires improvement▲ Inadequate▼
Emphasises in reports
Safeguarding culture Leadership & management Quality of care planning Staff supervision

Look up any children's home

Search by name or URN for the full inspection history of any registered home in England: every grade, the direction of travel, and what inspectors raised each time.

  • Five years of grades on one timeline
  • Improving, holding or declining, at a glance
  • Works for your homes and for anyone else's
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Springwood Children's Home
Inspection history
  • Mar 2026GoodFull inspection
  • Aug 2025Requires improvementFull inspection
  • Feb 2025Requires improvementMonitoring visit
  • Jun 2024GoodFull inspection
▲ Improving, one grade recovered since August

The Weekly Bulletin

One short email a week on what Ofsted published: how the grades fell, the homes rated Inadequate, and the concerns inspectors raised most often.

  • Read in about two minutes
  • Written from the record, not from opinion
  • Free, with the full Monthly Briefing on every paid plan
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The Weekly Bulletin for the week ending 11 October 2026: 123 reports published, 84% Good or better, 33 improved and 16 declined.

Ask your own policies

Upload each home's policies and procedures, then ask a plain question and get the answer with the paragraph it came from. For the moment when something has happened and nobody can remember which folder it is in.

  • "What do I do about an allegation against a member of staff?"
  • "What is our missing-from-home procedure?"
  • Answers cite your policy, not the internet
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A child went missing overnight and came back at 7am. What do I have to do?
Your missing-from-home procedure requires four things: notify police and the placing authority immediately, complete a welfare check on return, offer an independent return-home interview within 72 hours, and update the risk assessment. Springwood, Missing from Home Policy v4, section 6.2

FAQs

Commonly asked questions about Children's Homes IQ. Have another question? Get in touch and we will be happy to help.

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What is Children's Homes IQ?

An intelligence platform for people who run children's homes. It is built on the full public record of Ofsted children's home inspections: 4,915 homes and 44,769 reports, refreshed daily.

It turns that record into something you can act on: what inspectors are finding, how your homes compare, and what to fix before your next inspection.

What does the readiness check tell me?

Thirteen quick questions, about a minute in total. Rather than asking how confident you feel, it asks what you can actually evidence today, across safeguarding, leadership, actions, supervision, Regulation 44 and benchmarking.

You get a readiness signal, your three weakest areas explained, and a practical way to close each one. No account needed to see your result.

Where does your data come from?

Entirely from Ofsted's published inspection reports, which are public. We read every report for every registered children's home in England, going back five years, and keep it current with a daily check for newly published inspections.

Do I need an account, and is anything free?

The readiness check needs no account. The Weekly Bulletin is free too, and needs only your email address.

Everything else comes with a paid plan. That includes the full Monthly Briefing, the inspector and home lookups, and an email the day one of your homes is inspected.

Is anything about my home shared with Ofsted or anyone else?

No. We have no relationship with Ofsted and no route into your records. The inspection data we hold was already public before you arrived, and anything you record in the platform, such as your actions, evidence and monthly reviews, stays inside your own organisation.

Who is it for?

Registered Managers, Responsible Individuals and the directors above them. A Registered Manager sees their own home, a Responsible Individual sees every home in the group, which is where the corporate-wide view comes from.