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

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

News

Monday, October 28, 2019

| Nursery World

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

Ofsted: best practice guide – managing risk - Risk benefit

Features

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

| Nursery World

Ofsted has said that settings need to be bolder with incorporating risk into activities. Jack and Jill’s nursery has a model that works. By Hannah Crown

Labour pledges to scrap Ofsted

News

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.

Nursery Management: Management - CoEL for staff

Features

Sunday, September 15, 2019

| Nursery World

The Characteristics of Effective Learning aren’t just central to children’s development, but are also key to improving staff performance, argues Pennie Akehurst

Ofsted: best practice guide – parents - Getting parents on board

Features

Sunday, September 15, 2019

| Nursery World

How The Village Nursery and Pre-School in Cheshire involves parents in nursery life and their children’s development. By Meredith Jones Russell

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

News

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.

INSTED not Ofsted…

Opinion

Sunday, September 1, 2019

| Nursery World

A new campaign for a better nursery and schooling system is needed, argue Richard Brinton and Richard House

Ofsted: best practice guide – observation, assessment and planning - Under observation

Features

Monday, August 19, 2019

| Nursery World

What do good observations consist of? Hannah Crown speaks to Outstanding-rated Apple Tree Private Day Nursery in Rochdale to find out

Ofsted: best practice guide–safeguarding - Open and honest

Features

Monday, July 22, 2019

| Nursery World

How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown looks at good practice at Little Rainbows Day Nursery

DfE plans to raise Ofsted registration fees for early years settings

News

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.

Ofsted registration fees

Other

Thursday, July 18, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government is consulting on plans to increase Ofsted registration fees for early years providers and revise provider type categories.

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

News

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

News

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.

Inspection - The early years handbook

Features

Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst sets out key points on the new Early years inspection handbook in the second part of a series on the Ofsted documents coming into force in September

Ofsted: best practice guide – suitable people - Suitability test

Features

Monday, June 24, 2019

| Nursery World

What are the common problems with recruiting suitable people, and why does this come up so much in Ofsted reports? Hannah Crown looks at good practice at Elmscot

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

News

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.

Inspection - The handbook for schools

Features

Monday, June 10, 2019

| Nursery World

In the first of a two-part series looking at the new Ofsted handbooks, lead teacher for Bristol Early Years Kate Irvine examines what’s in the schools version