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Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

| Nursery World

The Pre-school Learning Alliance has teamed up with the Department for Education and Ofsted to tackle workload pressures on early years staff.

Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

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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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

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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.

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

| Nursery World

A previously Outstanding pre-school branded Inadequate after it sent mobile phone photos of children to parents, has been upgraded again following a re-inspection.

Call for ‘inspection holiday’ for nursery owners

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Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

A childcare provider is calling for routine Ofsted inspections to be postponed when nursery owners are away on holiday.

Two early years teacher courses 'require improvement'

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Thursday, September 28, 2017

| Nursery World

Two early years teacher training providers have been rated 'requires improvement' by Ofsted for two years running.

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

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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

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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'.

Nursery World's Ofsted survey findings 'extremely concerning', says sector

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

| Nursery World

The sector has called NW’s Ofsted survey findings, which showed hundreds of providers experience stress and anxiety ahead of inspection, ‘extremely concerning’, calling on the inspectorate to take the results ‘on board’.

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

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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

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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.

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Alliance joins DfE and Ofsted to tackle early years workload

Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

Ofsted annual report highlights high quality of early years education

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

Ofsted to make early years its focus over next five years

Ofsted calls for early years experts

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

Ofsted 'busts myths' as inspections go in-house

Nursery group wins challenge to Ofsted downgrade

Wales sets out ten-year vision for childcare

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

Inspections must be tailored for the early years

Pre-school 'good' again following mobile phone pic downgrade

Call for ‘inspection holiday’ for nursery owners

Two early years teacher courses 'require improvement'

Nursery rape case review criticises poor management

Nurseries say DfE ratio figures don't add up

Nursery World's Ofsted survey findings 'extremely concerning', says sector

Ofsted renews early years inspection contracts with Tribal and Prospects

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

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