Appearing before the education select committee today, Spielman, who took over the role from Sir Michael Wilshaw in January, said she had no plans to break up the inspectorate.
She said splitting the two remits would create more complexity in its work and make information sharing across education and social care more difficult.
Her comments came in response to Conservative MP Lucy Allen, Conservative MP for Telford, who asked Spielman whether a split would help improve inspections of children's social care given concerns raised from within the children's sector to the committee that Ofsted was not helping to improve children's lives.
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