Every Ofsted inspection.
Every inspector.
Investigated.

InspectorWho is a free platform that reads every published Ofsted inspection report in England, from 2005 to today, and turns them into searchable, structured data. You can look up any school, nursery, childminder, children's home or college, see every inspector's grading record against the national picture, and click through to the exact sentence behind every judgement.

Yes. Every report links to the inspectors named in it. Each inspector has a dossier showing how many inspections they have led, the grades they have given over the last five years compared with the national average for the same type of setting, where they inspect, who they inspect with and how their reports read. It is context, not a verdict on any individual.

Yes. Create an account with just your email address: we email you a sign-in code or link, with no password to remember. There is no card. Reports, settings, inspectors and national trends can be browsed without an account; joining lets you follow inspectors and settings, get alerts, read plain-English summaries and join the discussion. Deep insight, the AI analyst, is in early access: members can request it and start with free trial credits.

Schools (including academies, independent and special schools), early years settings and childminders, further education colleges, and children's social care: children's homes, fostering and adoption agencies, supported accommodation, residential special and boarding schools, and local authority children's services. It includes graded, ungraded and monitoring inspections and the new report cards introduced from November 2025.

New reports are picked up automatically. InspectorWho checks Ofsted every 15 minutes, so a report is usually read and searchable within minutes of being published.

From November 2025, Ofsted replaced the single overall grade for schools with report cards. Each evaluation area, such as inclusion, curriculum and teaching, achievement, attendance and behaviour, personal development and wellbeing, and leadership and governance, is graded on a five-point scale: exceptional, strong standard, expected standard, needs attention or urgent improvement. Safeguarding is judged separately as met or not met. InspectorWho breaks every report card out area by area and compares it with the setting's previous inspection and the national picture.

Every key fact (the URN, inspection date, grades and inspectors) is read from the original PDF by at least two independent methods and is only accepted when they agree. Disagreements are flagged rather than guessed, settled with AI as a tie-breaker, and reviewed by people. Every fact links to the highlighted line in the original report so you can check it yourself.

Carefully, and only where it helps. Grades are extracted by rules, and tone, themes, strengths and next steps are calculated from Ofsted's own language with no AI involved. AI is used to settle facts where independent readings disagree, to write optional plain-English summaries of a report, and to power Deep insight, which answers your questions by querying the structured data and shows its working, so every figure can be traced back to the reports.

Deep insight is an AI analyst built into InspectorWho. Ask a question such as "Which local authorities have the highest share of nurseries graded below good since 2023?" and it queries every report, then answers with charts, sortable tables and diagrams, links to the reports behind the numbers, and downloads in Excel, Word, PDF or CSV. You can also connect it to your own AI assistant, such as Claude or Copilot, with a personal access token. It protects private individuals: childminders are never named and locations are rounded. It is in early access: members request it from the app and start with free trial credits, and each answer uses a few credits depending on how much work it takes.

Yes. The InspectorWho app for Android is free on Google Play. It has the daily briefing, plain-English search, map search, every report and inspector, Deep insight, and notifications when settings or inspectors you follow get a new report. It uses the same account as the website.

No. InspectorWho is independent and is built on public Ofsted reports published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. It is an Early Tree product.

Yes. Members can rate their experience of an inspection and join the discussion on inspector and setting pages, choosing whether they are a provider, member of staff, parent or carer, inspector, researcher or something else. Discussions are moderated.