Ofsted is carrying out interim visits to all providers who were judged inadequate or requires improvement who were issued actions for a breach of one or more of the EYFS safeguarding and welfare requirements.
One nursery owner, who did not want to be named, told Nursery World her setting received a two-hour interim visit from a regulatory inspector ‘a year to the day’ of their last inspection in September 2019.
‘We were extremely keen to get a new full inspection because of the financial impact the grading of “requires improvement” was having on the business, and that was before the added financial difficulties of the lockdown and the pandemic.
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