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Interview with Ofsted’s national director of education, Lee Owston. By Katy Morton

Nursery World spoke to the national director of education about the inspectorate’s planned reform of early years inspection and regulation, timings and what the new report cards, which are replacing the single grade of effectiveness, would look like.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO MOVE TO A NEW EDUCATION INSPECTION FRAMEWORK?

We’ve said we will be renewing the education inspection framework, and that is a piece of work that I’ll be leading on. It’ll be my teams across all of the different remits that we inspect and regulate. We want something to be in place for September 2025 – we’ll stage some of that work across the year.

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