The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) took over responsibility for regulating childcare in England in September 2001 and immediately faced an enormous challenge: to inspect every childminder and daycare provider against new National Standards within 19 months.
The transition to national regulation required our inspectors to visit 100,000 providers, more than a thousand per week, to report on each and issue conditions and actions to ensure they fully met the new standards. At the same time, Ofsted dealt with more than 10,000 complaints about providers and ensured measures were taken to rectify breaches.
As a result, Ofsted's Early Years Directorate has issued the first 'state of the nation' report on childcare in England. Early years: the first national picture outlines Ofsted's findings during the 'transition period'
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