The report, Making the Grade?, said that a total of 6,881 children's services - including daycare, childminding and care homes - were inspected between April 2008 and March 2009 and most received good grades.
Services can be graded from 1 (unsatisfactory) to 6 (excellent) across different aspects of care, or 'quality themes'. These include: quality of care and support; quality of information/ environment; quality of staffing; and quality of management and leadership.
Eighty-eight per cent of children's services were graded 4 or above for quality of care and support.
Childminding in particular scored highly, with one in three childminders achieving grades of 5 (very good) or 6 (excellent) across all themes. A quarter of all daycare services achieved top grades of 5 and 6.
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