Nursery World - Baseline approval process falters

Delays appear to have hit the approval process for the Reception
baseline assessment after two-thirds of primary schools opted for the
same provider, Nursery World can reveal.

The baseline offered by Early Excellence has been successful in recruiting 11,000 primary schools to use its observation-based assessment.

Some of the remaining five suppliers appear to be continuing to recruit schools, despite the deadline for doing so having passed over a month ago.

Providers had to sign up 10 per cent of all primary schools by the end of April and submit their data to the Department for Education (DfE) to be in with a chance of being on the DfE's approved list of providers to offer the baseline from September.

Children will take the baseline assessment just after they start Reception.

However, as 11,000 of the country's 17,000 primary schools have signed up to the Early Excellence Baseline Assessment (EExBA), it is statistically impossible for all of the remaining five providers to have passed the 1,700 mark.

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