England

Inspectorate Profile: England

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is by far the largest organisation for inspection of schools - and of other providers of education, training and care - in Europe.  It is also one of the first inspectorates to have developed, from 1992 onwards, regular and systematic full inspection of schools.  With HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) in Scotland, Ofsted has had an important influence on the development of the new approach to school inspection, within Europe and in many other parts of the world.  

All details are given in the following link and in the sources given there.