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Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted is being urged to temporarily suspend routine early years inspections in light of the ongoing coronavirus spread.

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

News

Thursday, August 29, 2013

| Nursery World

Two more venues have been added for the early years sector's Ofsted Big Conversation weekend.

'More Great Childcare': Expansion for Ofsted as councils lose early years quality work

News

Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Local authorities are set to lose their early years quality improvement role, as Ofsted becomes 'the sole arbiter of quality in the early years', in the Government's 'More Great Childcare' shake-up.

Ofsted unveils childminder agency handbook

News

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted has published its new Childminder agency handbook, along with the application forms that people will need if they wish to apply to become an agency.

Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

News

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

| Nursery World

The Government is urging the early years sector to respond to an online consultation which will inform its review of how regulation for childcare providers is enforced.

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

News

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Local authorities will no longer have a role to improve quality in early years settings, leaving the future of the work of early years authority advisers and their teams unclear.

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

News

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

News

Thursday, May 29, 2014

| Nursery World

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

Ofsted duo seek to reassure sector

Other

Monday, May 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The new early years heads are keen to listen, they tell Catherine Gaunt in an exclusive interview.

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

News

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'.

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

News

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

News

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.

Ofsted figures show notable rise in good and outstanding grades

News

Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

The number of nurseries and childminders awarded good or outstanding grades has risen markedly over the last quarter, the latest Ofsted figures show.

Ofsted early years consultation: investment is key, sector says

News

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

There has been a mixed response from the early years sector to Ofsted's proposals to increase the frequency of inspections for weaker settings and replace the grade of 'satisfactory' with 'requires improvement'.

Ofsted set for radical overhaul to unite education inspections

News

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years settings, schools and colleges will be inspected under a new common inspection framework from September, with shorter and more frequent inspections.

First glimpse of new inspections framework shows improvements for childminders

News

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

| Nursery World

Childminders have performed better than nurseries in initial results from the first two months of the new inspections framework.

Sector criticises Ofsted move to potential 30-month wait for first inspection

News

Monday, October 6, 2014

| Nursery World

The early years sector has given a mixed reaction to changes to inspections set out by Ofsted early years director Nick Hudson and revealed on Nursery World online.

Ofsted: The New Inspection Framework, Part 3 - How you can be an 'action practitioner'

Features

Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Staff need to be able to demonstrate their understanding of child development in practice during inspections, says Laura Henry.

Exclusive: Concern over lack of data on nursery deaths and injuries

News

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

No official records are kept on the number of deaths, serious injuries and accidents that occur while children are in nursery or other childcare settings, a Nursery World investigation reveals.