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Ofsted calls for early years experts

Thursday, August 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

| Nursery World

Changes to the EYFS and new Ofsted framework are based on 'ideological and ill-informed' reasoning, early years experts warned at a conference last week.

Ofsted 'busts myths' as inspections go in-house

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Monday, April 3, 2017

| Nursery World

Ofsted has launched a myth-busting campaign for the early years sector to coincide with moving all early years inspections and their management in-house.

Nursery group wins challenge to Ofsted downgrade

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Monday, January 13, 2014

| Nursery World

A nursery group has succeeded in having its Ofsted grade successfully re-instated to a ‘good’ grade after campaigning for seven months to have a ‘satisfactory’ inspection judgement overturned.

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The Welsh Assembly has published its first early years and childcare plan, detailing ways in which it will support families and young children over the next ten years.

Ofsted takes school and FE inspections in house, but not early years

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Thursday, May 29, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted is to bring school inspections and further education inspections in-house.

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

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Friday, October 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Leading early years organisations have given a positive response to plans for a single inspection framework, but urged Ofsted to ensure that inspections are designed for the early education sector.

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously Outstanding pre-school branded Inadequate after it sent mobile phone photos of children to parents, has been upgraded again following a re-inspection.

Call for ‘inspection holiday’ for nursery owners

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Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

A childcare provider is calling for routine Ofsted inspections to be postponed when nursery owners are away on holiday.

Two early years teacher courses 'require improvement'

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

Two early years teacher training providers have been rated 'requires improvement' by Ofsted for two years running.

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

| Nursery World

Failings in a nursery's management and by Ofsted and a local authority meant that concerns about a nursery assistant who raped a toddler were missed.

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

The early years sector has slammed the Department for Education's (DfE) financial analysis of the ratio proposals as a 'fantasy'.

Nursery World's Ofsted survey findings 'extremely concerning', says sector

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has called NW’s Ofsted survey findings, which showed hundreds of providers experience stress and anxiety ahead of inspection, ‘extremely concerning’, calling on the inspectorate to take the results ‘on board’.

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted has confirmed that early years inspections will continue to be outsourced to third-party inspection providers.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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Friday, January 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Childcare minister Sam Gyimah has written to sector organisations to notify them of Government plans to consult on a rise to the annual Ofsted fees for childcare providers.

Nursery group closed over safeguarding fears

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Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Four nurseries in Devon are to be permanently closed, leaving more than 400 children without childcare and 100 members of staff without jobs.

FOI request shows very few Ofsted complaints upheld

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

| Nursery World

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request filed by a 'downgraded' nursery provider has revealed that only a tiny percentage of settings have had their complaint upheld by Ofsted and judgement changed.

Ofsted Big Conversation: Meetings with Ofsted regional directors planned

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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years education and childcare professionals across the country are preparing for Ofsted Big Conversation meetings with their regional Ofsted directors in the coming weeks.

Take part in our Ofsted survey

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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

| Nursery World

Is Ofsted fit-for-purpose, what needs to change? We want to hear about your experiences.

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

| Nursery World

Many early years respondents to Nursery World's survey highlight negative experiences of inspections and say they feel anxious about future ones. By Catherine Gaunt and Katy Morton

Ofsted: Government rules in favour of keeping single-word judgements

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Friday, April 26, 2024

| Nursery World

The Government has said that single-word inspection judgements will stay, despite recommendations from the education select committee of MPs that they should be scrapped and replaced with a more ‘nuanced’ system.

Ofsted updates early years inspection handbook ahead of EYFS reforms

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

| Nursery World

Ofsted has made some updates to the early years inspection handbook, with changes due to come into force in September.

Early years representatives to review inspection complaints

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

From early next year, regional scrutiny committees will include independent early years representatives to review Ofsted judgement complaints.

Ofsted unveils new safeguarding requirements

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years settings will need a safeguarding lead practitioner on duty whenever they are open, Ofsted has said.

Exclusive: Ofsted - Data delay exposed

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Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

An investigation by the Pre-school Learning Alliance has revealed that data on more than 400 early years inspections was omitted from quarterly statistics published by Ofsted last year due to delays in the publication of inspection reports, Nursery World can exclusively reveal.

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Ofsted calls for early years experts

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

Ofsted 'busts myths' as inspections go in-house

Nursery group wins challenge to Ofsted downgrade

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

Ofsted takes school and FE inspections in house, but not early years

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

Call for ‘inspection holiday’ for nursery owners

Two early years teacher courses 'require improvement'

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

Nursery World's Ofsted survey findings 'extremely concerning', says sector

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

Nursery group closed over safeguarding fears

FOI request shows very few Ofsted complaints upheld

Ofsted Big Conversation: Meetings with Ofsted regional directors planned

Take part in our Ofsted survey

Exclusive – Nursery World Ofsted survey: Hundreds of nurseries and childminders report stress and sleepless nights before inspections

Ofsted: Government rules in favour of keeping single-word judgements

Ofsted updates early years inspection handbook ahead of EYFS reforms

Early years representatives to review inspection complaints

Ofsted unveils new safeguarding requirements

Exclusive: Ofsted - Data delay exposed

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