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Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

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.

All in a day's work - self-evaluation

Features

Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Completing the new Self-Evaluation Form is no mean feat, say Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell, joint managers of Oakey Dokeys Pre-School in Essex.

Ofsted to run consultation on paid-for inspection details

News

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted is to consult in the next few months on the procedures and cost for paid-for early years inspections.

Ofsted scraps plan to remove childminders from statistics

News

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted has ditched plans to omit data on childminder numbers and places from official figures.

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

News

Monday, January 12, 2015

| Nursery World

The latest Ofsted results for children's centres suggest that performance is poor in comparison to other types of childcare provision. Gabriella Jozwiak investigates the facts behind the figures.

Three in ten settings downgraded following complaints-driven inspections

News

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of nurseries and childminders inspected following a complaint have seen their grade drop, according to figures released by Ofsted.

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.

A model for failure?

Opinion

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

| Nursery World

Childminder agencies are being rushed in despite fundamental flaws, argues Neil Leitch

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 figures show small rise in good and outstanding grades

News

Thursday, June 26, 2014

| Nursery World

The proportion of nurseries and childminders awarded a grade of outstanding or good by Ofsted has increased slightly, but so has the percentage deemed inadequate.

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.

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

News

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.

Editor's view - Heading for a fall

Opinion

Monday, January 12, 2015

| Nursery World

Why are children's centre inspection grades dropping and what effect could that have?

Ofsted confirms separate grades for early years in schools

News

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years provision in schools will be graded separately from September, Ofsted has confirmed.

Early years Ofsted reports to be 'shorter and punchier'

News

Friday, November 21, 2014

| Nursery World

Inspection reports are going to be ‘punchier’ from January, Ofsted’s early years chief has said.

Editor's view - Paying for it

Opinion

Monday, December 1, 2014

| Nursery World

The facility to be able to pay for re-inspection of early years settings was lobbied for by substantial parts of the sector, and Ofsted duly agreed to move forward on this.

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

News

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

| Nursery World

The sector has responded boldly to the Government’s review of the red tape burdening early years provision, amid fears of a ‘tipping point’.

Ofsted: The new inspection framework, Part 1 - What are the main regulatory changes?

Features

Friday, September 14, 2012

| Nursery World

Our new, seven-part series aims to provide a comprehensive guide to how nurseries can prepare for - and what they can expect from - the new regime.

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

News

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

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'.

The early years sector tells Ofsted: 'This is what we want'

News

Monday, September 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Consistency, transparency, fairness - the same words kept cropping up during the Ofsted Big Conversation meetings held this weekend.

More early years settings downgraded by Ofsted

News

Thursday, September 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The latest Ofsted statistics show that more nurseries and childminders were judged as satisfactory and inadequate in recent inspections compared to the same period last year.

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.

Consultation on the publication of statistics on early years providers and places and inspection outcomes

Other

Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted is proposing to revise the publication of statistics relating to early years inspections and the number of registered childcare providers and places.

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Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

All in a day's work - self-evaluation

Ofsted to run consultation on paid-for inspection details

Ofsted scraps plan to remove childminders from statistics

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

Three in ten settings downgraded following complaints-driven inspections

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

A model for failure?

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

Ofsted figures show small rise in good and outstanding grades

Ofsted duo seek to reassure sector

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

Editor's view - Heading for a fall

Ofsted confirms separate grades for early years in schools

Early years Ofsted reports to be 'shorter and punchier'

Editor's view - Paying for it

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

Ofsted: The new inspection framework, Part 1 - What are the main regulatory changes?

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

The early years sector tells Ofsted: 'This is what we want'

More early years settings downgraded by Ofsted

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

Consultation on the publication of statistics on early years providers and places and inspection outcomes

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