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Ofsted annual report highlights changing childcare market

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

| Nursery World

The early years sector is experiencing an ongoing fall in the number of childminders, while an increasing number of nurseries are becoming part of large national and international groups, Ofsted’s annual report has said.

‘Journey to Outstanding may be harder’

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Monday, November 25, 2019

| Nursery World

More than 80 per cent of providers are Good or Outstanding under Ofsted’s new inspection framework, but this trend may not continue, an outcomes analyst has said.

More than 80 per cent of providers good or outstanding under EIF

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

| Nursery World

Speaking today at the Nursery World Business Summit, Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals, said early analysis of Ofsted inspections under the new framework paints an 'encouraging picture'.

New inspections welcomed by nurseries

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Monday, October 28, 2019

| Nursery World

Early years settings that have been inspected under the new framework are largely positive about their experience.

Labour pledges to scrap Ofsted

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Monday, September 23, 2019

| Nursery World

A Labour Government would axe Ofsted and replace it with local authority ‘health checks' for childcare providers and schools.

Equip yourself for the new inspection framework at Nursery World's conference

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Thursday, September 5, 2019

| Nursery World

Join us at our Birmingham conference, on 6 December, to find out what the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) means for you and your practice.

DfE plans to raise Ofsted registration fees for early years settings

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Thursday, July 18, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a consultation into increasing registration fees for early years providers, as well as whether provider type categories need revising.

Exclusive: 'Avoid a Tesco curriculum', says leading academic

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Thursday, July 11, 2019

| Nursery World

Settings should avoid ‘a Tesco-delivery’ model of early years curriculum under the new Ofsted inspection framework, Professor Elizabeth Wood has warned.

Exclusive: I don't understand anxiety over new handbooks, says Ofsted chief

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Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

The Ofsted chief inspector has said anxiety about the creation of a two-tier system for early years inspections has been ‘whipped up’ by a handful of early years representatives.

Childminder numbers continue to drop, while early years quality remains high

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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

| Nursery World

The number of childminders is continuing to fall and has dropped by 9,000 in less than four years, the latest Ofsted figures show.

Ofsted finalises new inspection handbooks

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Monday, May 27, 2019

| Nursery World

Ofsted has made some changes to the Early years inspection handbook and the School inspection handbook, which come into use from September with the new Education Inspection Framework.

Ofsted inspection framework: sector response

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

| Nursery World

The early years sector has cautiously welcomed Ofsted’s new inspection framework, with its focus on education and aims to cut down on paperwork and data, but teaching unions have been more critical.

Ofsted: new education inspection framework to go ahead in September

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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

| Nursery World

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 confirms no changes will be made to inspection grades

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

| Nursery World

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

Concern over change to Ofsted appeal process

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Monday, April 29, 2019

| Nursery World

Early years settings have raised concerns about changes to the way Ofsted deals with the internal objections process when a decision is made to cancel a provider’s registration.

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.

Childminder numbers fall by 3 per cent in three months

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

Early years organisation PACEY has commissioned research into the decline in childminding and the reasons for it, as the latest Ofsted statistics show a fall of 1,000 childminders in a three-month period.

Get ready for the new Ofsted inspection framework at our conference

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Thursday, March 14, 2019

| Nursery World

Nursery World's one-day event on 9 July has a line-up of leading experts to take you through what Ofsted expects under the forthcoming Education Inspection Framework.