Early Education, also known as the British Association for Early Childhood Education, criticised the report, published last week, on the grounds that some of the Ofsted inspectors have no experience of working in early years settings. It called for them to be given further training.
Pat Wills, Early Education national chair, said, 'We are concerned about who is doing the reporting. Inspectors need to have a significant understanding of children's learning in the early years in order to be able to select strands of literacy and numeracy throughout the whole day.
'This report is flawed and inaccurate because some of the inspectors reporting aren't necessarily trained early years practitioners. They need more training.'
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