# InspectorWho > Every Ofsted inspection. Every inspector. Investigated. InspectorWho is a free, independent platform that reads every published Ofsted inspection report in England since 2005: 421,114 reports, 16,878 inspectors and 129,795 settings. It shows how each Ofsted inspector grades against the national picture, decodes the new report cards, and links every fact to the exact line in the original report. - Website: https://inspectorwho.com - App: https://beta.inspectorwho.com (free; sign in with an emailed code or link, no card, no password) - Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.earlytree.inspectorwho (free on Google Play, same account) - Deep insight: https://beta.inspectorwho.com/insight (AI analyst over the whole archive; early access for members, with free trial credits) - Contact: support@inspectorwho.com - Publisher: Early Tree Limited (company no. 14693946), trading as Early Tree (https://earlytree.co.uk) - Data: public Ofsted reports, Open Government Licence v3.0. Not affiliated with Ofsted. ## Coverage - Primary schools - Secondary schools - Academies & free schools - Nurseries & pre-schools - Childminders - Independent schools - Special schools - Further education colleges - Children's homes - Fostering agencies - Adoption agencies - Supported accommodation - Boarding & residential schools - Local authority children's services ## Features - Deep insight: An AI analyst for the whole archive. Ask a question in plain English and get an answer with charts, sortable tables and links to the reports behind it, then download it as Excel, Word, PDF or CSV. - Inspector dossiers: Every Ofsted inspector's grading record against the national baseline, their patch on a map, and who they inspect with. - Report cards, decoded: The new five-point Ofsted report cards broken out area by area, and compared with what came before. - Evidence, not opinion: Each fact is read at least two independent ways. Click any grade to see the highlighted line on the original page. - Plain-English summaries: What's going well and what needs to improve, in a few lines, for any report. - Tone and themes: How positive or critical a report reads, the topics it dwells on, and its strengths, concerns and next steps quoted with page links. Rule-based, no AI. - Ask the archive: Search in plain English, like "inadequate nurseries in Leeds 2025". Places, grades, setting types and years are picked out of your words, and passages are matched by meaning, not just keywords. - Map search: Every inspected setting in England on one map. Move, zoom and filter by sector and grade, and the list follows the map. - The national picture: Grade trends by year for every remit, the first report card results, and local authority tables. - Trusts, chains and groups: Academy trusts, federations, nursery chains and care providers, with every setting they run and its latest grade. - Follow and get alerts: Follow inspectors and settings and get an email or a phone notification when a new report lands, with a New for you list of what you haven't seen yet. - In your pocket: The InspectorWho app for Android, free on Google Play: the daily briefing, search, map, Deep insight and alerts, with the same account as the website. - Have your say: Rate your inspection experience and compare notes with providers, staff and parents. ## How the data is produced 1. Watch: An always-on watcher checks Ofsted for new reports every 15 minutes, and a continuous sweep of every setting's Ofsted page fills in older reports that were missed. 2. Read, twice: Each report is read by layout-aware rules. Grades, dates, inspectors and URNs are only accepted when independent readings agree. 3. Settle: Disagreements are flagged, not guessed. AI is used only to settle them, and people check the edge cases one fact at a time. 4. Show the working: Every fact links to the exact line it came from on the original Ofsted page, so you can check it yourself. ## Who uses it - Nursery owners & managers: See who's inspecting in your area, what they focus on, and how settings like yours have been graded under the current framework. - Childminders: Read reports for childminders near you in minutes, not hours, and find out what inspectors praised and challenged. - School & trust leaders: Decode the new report cards, benchmark your trust against the national picture and track every school in your group. - Children's home & care providers: Social care judgements, monitoring visits and assurance visits, all searchable alongside the inspectors who carried them out. - Parents & carers: Look past the headline grade. See what a report actually says about the school or nursery you're choosing. - Researchers, journalists & consultants: Twenty years of structured inspection data with an evidence link for every fact. Ask Deep insight for the chart or spreadsheet, spot the pattern, then cite the page. ## FAQ ### What is InspectorWho? 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. ### Can I find out who my Ofsted inspector is and how they grade? 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. ### Is InspectorWho free? 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. ### Which Ofsted reports does it cover? 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. ### How quickly do new Ofsted reports appear? 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. ### What are the new Ofsted report cards? 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. ### How accurate is the data? 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. ### Does InspectorWho use AI? 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. ### What is Deep insight? 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. ### Is there an InspectorWho app? 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. ### Is InspectorWho affiliated with Ofsted? 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. ### Can I share my experience of an inspection? 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. ## Key pages in the app - [National picture](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/explore): Ofsted grade trends by year, report card results by area, local authority tables. - [Ofsted inspectors](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/inspectors): directory of inspectors with grading records. - [Map search](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/map): every inspected setting on a map, filtered by sector and grade. - [Deep insight](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/insight): ask questions of the whole archive and get answers with charts, tables and downloads (members, early access). - [Search](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/search?q={query}): plain-English search, e.g. "inadequate nurseries in Leeds 2025". - [App guide for AI agents](https://beta.inspectorwho.com/llms.txt): URL patterns for reports, settings, inspectors and groups. ## Legal and data policies - [Privacy policy](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/privacy): What personal data we collect, why, who we share it with and how long we keep it. - [Terms and conditions](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/terms): The agreement for using the InspectorWho website, web app and mobile apps. - [Cookie policy](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/cookies): The cookies and similar technologies we use, and how to control them. - [Your data rights (UK GDPR)](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/gdpr): Your rights under data protection law and how to exercise them. - [Data sources and corrections](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/data): Where our data comes from, how it's produced, its limits, and how to correct it. - [Community guidelines](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/community-guidelines): The rules for ratings and discussion, and how to report content. - [Delete your account](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/account-deletion): How to delete your account and data, on the web or in the mobile apps. - [Accessibility statement](https://inspectorwho.com/legal/accessibility): How accessible InspectorWho is and how to tell us about problems.