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Ofsted chief appointment confirmed

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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Amanda Spielman will be Ofsted’s next chief inspector, the Government has confirmed.

Ofsted annual report highlights high quality of early years education

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

| Nursery World

The gap between the quality of early years provision in poorer areas of the country and the more affluent has narrowed during Sir Michael Wilshaw's time as chief inspector.

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

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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.

Ofsted to run consultation on paid-for inspection details

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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.

Sector outraged by new ‘insensitive’ Ofsted guidance on reporting employees’ ‘emotional issues’

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Thursday, January 13, 2022

| Nursery World

The early years sector is up in arms about new Ofsted guidance that states providers must report any changes to an employees’ health including depression, ‘stress-related’ or emotional issues.

Ofsted to make early years its focus over next five years

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

| Nursery World

Ofsted is to publish its five-year strategy in the spring, which will focus on the early years sector, the chief inspector Amanda Spielman has revealed.

Ofsted scraps plan to remove childminders from statistics

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

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

Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough'

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Monday, March 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is planning a new focus on physical development in early years settings, with deputy director of early education Gill Jones claiming that nurseries and pre-schools are not adequately physically challenging.

Ofsted inspectors issued with new guidance on Intergenerational co-location

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Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted has issued new guidance to inspectors on registering and inspecting sites shared by childcare and eldercare services.

Ofsted calls for early years experts

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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.

Cross-party MPs accuse Ofsted of underperforming

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Friday, September 7, 2018

| Nursery World

A new damning report from the Public Accounts Committee on Ofsted’s performance calls for the Government to review the inspectorate’s approach.

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.

Coronavirus: Ofsted to visit settings, ahead of a return to education inspection in January 2021

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Monday, July 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted will start to visit early years settings, schools and colleges from the autumn, with a return to full inspection planned for January 2021, although this date will be kept under review.

Ofsted: More details on early years assurance inspections set out

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

| Nursery World

New guidance on the programme of ‘assurance’ inspections for early years providers, starting in January 2021 has been published by Ofsted.

Cheshire nursery honoured

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

| Nursery World

Scamps Day Nursery in Macclesfield is celebrating a hat trick of achievements.

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

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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.

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.

Three in ten settings downgraded following complaints-driven inspections

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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

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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.

Standalone children’s centres faring worse than merged centres

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

| Nursery World

Close to half of standalone children’s centres were judged as ‘Requires Improvement’, the latest Ofsted figures show.

Ofsted figures show small rise in good and outstanding grades

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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.

Labour outlines plans to reform Ofsted

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Monday, March 13, 2023

| Nursery World

Labour's shadow education secretary has announced plans to replace Ofsted grades for schools with a new report card should the party win the next general election.

Ofsted's chief inspector accused of forgetting the early years sector when promising change

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Friday, April 21, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has accused Ofsted’s chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, of forgetting about the early years within her statement promising change.

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Ofsted chief appointment confirmed

Ofsted annual report highlights high quality of early years education

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

Ofsted to run consultation on paid-for inspection details

Sector outraged by new ‘insensitive’ Ofsted guidance on reporting employees’ ‘emotional issues’

Ofsted to make early years its focus over next five years

Ofsted scraps plan to remove childminders from statistics

Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough'

Ofsted inspectors issued with new guidance on Intergenerational co-location

Ofsted calls for early years experts

Cross-party MPs accuse Ofsted of underperforming

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

Coronavirus: Ofsted to visit settings, ahead of a return to education inspection in January 2021

Ofsted: More details on early years assurance inspections set out

Cheshire nursery honoured

Children's centres: Why are inspection grades suffering?

Ofsted 'busts myths' as inspections go in-house

Nursery group wins challenge to Ofsted downgrade

Three in ten settings downgraded following complaints-driven inspections

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

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

Standalone children’s centres faring worse than merged centres

Ofsted figures show small rise in good and outstanding grades

Labour outlines plans to reform Ofsted

Ofsted's chief inspector accused of forgetting the early years sector when promising change

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