More than 80 per cent of providers good or outstanding under EIF
Speaking today at the Nursery World Business Summit, Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early...
Speaking today at the Nursery World Business Summit, Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early...
Early years settings that have been inspected under the new framework are largely positive about...
Ofsted has said that settings need to be bolder with incorporating risk into activities. Jack and...
A Labour Government would axe Ofsted and replace it with local authority ‘health checks' for...
The Characteristics of Effective Learning aren’t just central to children’s development, but are...
How The Village Nursery and Pre-School in Cheshire involves parents in nursery life and their...
Join us at our Birmingham conference, on 6 December, to find out what the new Ofsted Education...
A new campaign for a better nursery and schooling system is needed, argue Richard Brinton and...
What do good observations consist of? Hannah Crown speaks to Outstanding-rated Apple Tree Private...
How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown...
The Department for Education has launched a consultation into increasing registration fees for early...
The Government is consulting on plans to increase Ofsted registration fees for early years providers...
Settings should avoid ‘a Tesco-delivery’ model of early years curriculum under the new Ofsted...
The Ofsted chief inspector has said anxiety about the creation of a two-tier system for early years...
Pennie Akehurst sets out key points on the new Early years inspection handbook in the second part of...
What are the common problems with recruiting suitable people, and why does this come up so much in...
The number of childminders is continuing to fall and has dropped by 9,000 in less than four years,...
In the first of a two-part series looking at the new Ofsted handbooks, lead teacher for Bristol...
The way we inspect childcare provision is changing.
What is good practice when it comes to managing staff? The Village Nursery Group, based around...
Ofsted has made some changes to the Early years inspection handbook and the School inspection...
The early years sector has cautiously welcomed Ofsted’s new inspection framework, with its focus on...
Ofsted has confirmed that it is pressing ahead with changes to the way it inspects early years...
Ofsted says it will retain its four-point grading system of early years settings and schools despite...
Early years settings have raised concerns about changes to the way Ofsted deals with the internal...
This one-day event will take delegates through what Ofsted expects under the forthcoming Education...
Bristol-based setting The Nursery has won praise for its approach to planning to best challenge...
Changes to the EYFS and new Ofsted framework are based on 'ideological and ill-informed' reasoning,...
What is new in Ofsted’s recently published Education Inspection Framework, and what are the...
In the first of a series presenting models of best practice for inspection, we look at monitoring...
Early years organisation PACEY has commissioned research into the decline in childminding and the...
Nursery World's one-day event on 9 July has a line-up of leading experts to take you through what...
A childcare provider is calling for routine Ofsted inspections to be postponed when nursery owners...
To round off our series on common themes in Ofsted inspections, Pennie Akehurst presents the top ten...
The Pre-school Learning Alliance has teamed up with the Department for Education and Ofsted to...
The education inspection framework consultation presents an opportunity for childminders, nursery...
Nursery World looks in detail at how Ofsted plans to change early years inspection.
Ofsted has opened a consultation on its new Education Inspection Framework.
Ofsted’s draft Education Inspection Framework promises a move from data to curriculum, but the...
Early years organisations and teaching unions have given a lukewarm response to Ofsted’s plans to...
Ofsted has launched a consultation on plans to change the way it inspects early years settings,...
Dee Coleman, Principal Officer, Early Years, explains what Ofsted does and does not require for...
Prospective childminders are facing long delays registering with Ofsted, putting many off joining...
Ofsted has named the 22 expert members of the Early Years Pedagogy and Practice Forum, after...
Former head of early years Pennie Akehurst looks forward to the Education Inspection Framework, set...
Nurseries and pre-schools operating in large groups have a greater proportion of Outstanding grades,...
Children across England are missing out on special educational needs support, Ofsted’s annual report...
When it comes to vulnerable children, how should settings approach areas such as assessment and...
With the 30 hours leading to more children attending multiple settings, Pennie Akehurst finds the...
Children’s outcomes will become a less prominent feature of inspections, while the quality of...
