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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

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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

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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

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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

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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

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Monday, July 5, 2021

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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.

Parents could be charged to use childminder agencies

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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

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

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

New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

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Monday, November 4, 2013

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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

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

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

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

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

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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.

Nick Hudson steps down as Ofsted drops early years division

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Thursday, August 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Nick Hudson, Ofsted’s director for Early Education, is leaving the role, which has been absorbed into the education remit.

Revision of inspection framework cost providers £12m

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery costs for introducing the revised early years common inspection framework were nearly £600 each, according to Ofsted figures.

Ofsted statistics show continuing drop in childminder numbers

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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

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There were 500 fewer childminders registered with Ofsted in the last quarter, continuing the trend of steep decline.

Raw jelly choking risk ‘not sufficiently highlighted’

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Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Questions are being raised over whether the risks of raw jelly to young children have been sufficiently highlighted, following the fine imposed on Dicky Birds nursery after the death of Tiya Chauhan.

Bertram Nursery Group investigated over baby injury

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Thursday, June 2, 2016

| Nursery World

A major nursery group has hit back at suggestions a baby was ‘strangled’ by a blind cord at one of its settings.

Ofsted to bring early years inspections in-house

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have unanimously welcomed Ofsted’s decision to bring early years inspections in-house from next year.

Ofsted confirms no changes will be made to inspection grades

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Ofsted says it will retain its four-point grading system of early years settings and schools despite criticisms from the sector.

Ofsted: new education inspection framework to go ahead in September

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

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Ofsted has confirmed that it is pressing ahead with changes to the way it inspects early years providers, schools and colleges, after receiving strong support from three-quarters of consultation respondents for re-focusing inspection on the substance of education.

Ofsted's Gill Jones begins drive to clarify Bold Beginnings report

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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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Ofsted’s early years head has sought to reassure Reception class teachers and EYFS leaders in the wake of controversy surrounding Ofsted’s report on Reception practice.

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

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Monday, January 28, 2013

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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.

'Inadequate' Learndirect stopped from taking new apprentices

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Thursday, August 17, 2017

| Nursery World

Learndirect, the biggest provider of childcare apprenticeships, has had its Government funding withdrawn after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted.

Ofsted will make it more difficult for failing nurseries to re-register

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Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The recent closure by Ofsted of a Birmingham nursery, which re-registered after a serious incident took place at the setting two years previously, highlights once again the loophole that allows settings to 'wipe the slate clean'.

Ofsted figures show drop in childminders

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

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There are more than 1,000 fewer childminders registered with Ofsted than there were six months ago, and the number of places has also fallen slightly, according to the latest figures released by the inspectorate.

Ofsted highlights early years workforce crisis in annual report

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

| Nursery World

Ofsted’s annual report highlights the impact of the early years workforce crisis on the sector, and the growing number of unqualified staff in nurseries and pre-schools.

30 hours expansion 'likely to fall flat on its face' as Ofsted stats reveal a 'plummet' in childcare places

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Friday, November 17, 2023

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The number of early years places has fallen by 17,800 in the last year, according to the latest Ofsted data, raising further questions over how the expanded 30 hours will be successfully delivered.

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

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

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

Ofsted figures show ongoing fall in childcare provider numbers

Busy Bees nursery rated inadequate due to safeguarding concerns

Parents could be charged to use childminder agencies

Ofsted Big Conversation weekend - latest meetings

New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

Strong backing for separate early years grade in schools

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

Nick Hudson steps down as Ofsted drops early years division

Revision of inspection framework cost providers £12m

Ofsted statistics show continuing drop in childminder numbers

Raw jelly choking risk ‘not sufficiently highlighted’

Bertram Nursery Group investigated over baby injury

Ofsted to bring early years inspections in-house

Ofsted confirms no changes will be made to inspection grades

Ofsted: new education inspection framework to go ahead in September

Ofsted's Gill Jones begins drive to clarify Bold Beginnings report

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

'Inadequate' Learndirect stopped from taking new apprentices

Ofsted will make it more difficult for failing nurseries to re-register

Ofsted figures show drop in childminders

Ofsted highlights early years workforce crisis in annual report

30 hours expansion 'likely to fall flat on its face' as Ofsted stats reveal a 'plummet' in childcare places

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