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Outstanding Ofsted grades double in a year
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
3 December 2009
The number of outstanding childcare providers inspected last year is more than double that of the previous year, according to the annual report published by Ofsted last week.
However, the quality of childcare in deprived areas is of a lower standard overall than in other parts of the country, with a higher proportion of nurseries and childminders inspected achieving lower grades than elsewhere. Nurseries were found to offer higher quality than childminders in poorer areas, but in other areas they offered comparable levels of care. Nine per cent of providers inspected between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009 were...
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