Quality of provision rising in education and daycare

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 28 August 2008

The latest Oftsed review has found steady improvements in the quality of early years education and childcare provision in daycare settings year-on-year.

The number of providers rated outstanding for early education has grown from 4 per cent in 2005-06 to 8 per cent in 2007-08, and outstanding childcare has risen from 2 per cent to 5 per cent in the same period. However, the report highlights that among childminders the level of good childcare has fallen from 62 per cent to 54 per cent and the level of inadequate childminding has risen from 2 per cent to 6 per cent over the three-year cycle. Ofsted said...

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