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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.

Campaigners issue warning over unregulated childcare and call for Ofsted registration for nannies

News

Friday, July 31, 2020

| Nursery World

Using unregulated nannies to solve the childcare crisis could pose serious potential risk to children, a campaigning body has warned.

Ofsted to change the way early years providers report coronavirus cases and serious incidents

News

Monday, January 4, 2021

| Nursery World

Childcare providers reporting serious childcare incidents to Ofsted, including confirmed cases of Covid-19, must fill in a new online form from the end of January.

Ofsted figures show ongoing fall in childcare provider numbers

News

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

| Nursery World

The number of providers has continued to fall, the latest data shows, with 4 per cent fewer early years settings registered with Ofsted than at the end of last August.

Busy Bees nursery rated inadequate due to safeguarding concerns

News

Monday, July 5, 2021

| Nursery World

A setting operated by the country's largest nursery chain, Busy Bees Childcare, has been downgraded to inadequate due to its inability to keep children safe.

Nursery Management: Inspection - In the frame

Features

Monday, March 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals, discusses the changes she has seen in inspections since the advent of the new Education Inspection Framework

Parents could be charged to use childminder agencies

News

Thursday, July 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The education and childcare minister Elizabeth Truss has suggested that parents who use childminder agencies will have to pay a fee.

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.

New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

News

Monday, November 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and four-year-olds.

Strong backing for separate early years grade in schools

News

Thursday, July 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Ofsted’s decision to introduce separate EYFS judgements in school inspections has received overwhelming support.

Exclusive: Ofsted responds to the Big Conversation

Opinion

Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Sue Gregory, Ofsted Early Years Director, explains the rationale of the new framework and gives a point-by-point response to the sector's Big Conversation demands

Children's centre inspections suspended, while Ofsted grades rise slightly

News

Thursday, November 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Children’s centre inspections have been put on hold pending the Department for Education’s consultation into children’s centres, due to take place before the end of the year.

Nursery Food: Common Inspection Framework - Health check

Features

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

What does the new Ofsted framework mean for settings' approach to food. Annette Rawstrone reports

Exclusive: Minibeasts and the Big Bad Wolf

Opinion

Monday, July 13, 2015

| Nursery World

As Ofsted publishes its second Early Years Annual Report, Nick Hudson looks at how early years settings need to balance teaching and play in a child’s early years

Common inspection framework: part 1 - Common ground?

Features

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted's new inspection framework comes in this September. In the first of a four-part series, the Pre-School Learning Alliance's Michael Freeston offers an overview of what providers can expect.