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Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 6: meeting children’s needs 2

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst asks Fiona Holiday, a certified therapeutic play practitioner, what must be in place to meet the needs of children and get the best out of them

Ofsted's report on obesity slammed for ignoring experts

News

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

| Nursery World

The expert panel who advised Ofsted on its obesity report, claim that the inspectorate has gone against its advice by saying that schools are not the ‘silver bullet’ to tackling childhood obesity.

'Unfair' disqualification rules for nursery staff removed

News

Monday, July 2, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has removed the disqualification by association rule for childcare practitioners in non-domestic settings and schools.

Childminder numbers drop by 600 in three months

News

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted statistics show the number of childminders registered with Ofsted has continued to decrease.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 5: meeting children’s needs - The best we can be

Features

Monday, June 25, 2018

| Nursery World

When it comes to meeting the needs of children, Pennie Akehurst’s analysis of Ofsted inspection reports finds that meeting the needs of staff is the first step

Your guide to the latest early years documents

Features

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Are you using the most recent Government documents giving advice on early years and safeguarding legislation?

Ofsted chief calls on nurseries to help close the 'word gap'

News

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman is telling childcare practitioners to read 'time-honoured classics' to children to help solve the problem of four-year-olds starting school unable to communicate.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 4: A New Evaluation Framework - Self-assessment

Features

Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Following her article last month on monitoring and evaluation systems, Pennie Akehurst looks at how to develop a new system of self-evaluation

Dropping Ofsted grades would improve provision

Opinion

Monday, May 14, 2018

| Nursery World

There are rumours of a potentially major change to the way Ofsted rates England’s childcare providers and I, for one, couldn’t be happier about it.

Ofsted inspectors issued with new guidance on Intergenerational co-location

News

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

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

Nursery group closed over safeguarding fears

News

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Four nurseries in Devon are to be permanently closed, leaving more than 400 children without childcare and 100 members of staff without jobs.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 3: Monitoring And Self-Evaluation

Features

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, looks at how settings can replace the recently axed Ofsted self-evaluation form

Ofsted statistics show an increase in providers exiting the sector since introduction of the 30 hours

News

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

| Nursery World

The first Ofsted figures on childcare providers and inspections since the introduction of the 30 hours, reveal there are 468 fewer nurseries and childminders than at the end of August 2017.

Hear the latest from Ofsted at Nursery World North 2018

Other

Thursday, March 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Part of our great two-day seminar programme in Liverpool on 11-12 May, 'Ofsted: Play, learning and tracking children’s progress' offers a vital opportunity to keep up to date with Ofsted inspection priorities.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 2: Performance Management Systems - A poor performance

Features

Monday, March 19, 2018

| Nursery World

In the second part of this series, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, finds some settings fall short on performance management

Ofsted says settings are 'not physical enough'

News

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.

Too good to be true?

Opinion

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Natalie Perera argues that the early years sector should welcome scrutiny of Ofsted grades

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 1: Safeguarding - falling short

Features

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, discusses the areas where settings often fall down on safeguarding

Ofsted decides to ditch self-evaluation form

News

Friday, February 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is scrapping its self-evaluation form to help reduce the burden on early years providers.

Bold Beginnings: getting the message over

News

Monday, February 5, 2018

| Nursery World

By Gill Jones’ own admission, Ofsted’s ‘Bold Beginnings’ report on Reception class teaching, which she co-authored, has ‘caused quite a stir’.

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

News

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

| Nursery World

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.

Nearly 1,000 children's centres not inspected

News

Monday, January 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Action for Children says the Government is 'letting families down' as it finds that four in ten children's centres have not been inspected for over five years.

Bold Beginnings: Ofsted publishes methods behind controversial report

News

Monday, January 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Faced with a number of Freedom of Information requests, Ofsted has bowed to pressure and published more information on the methodology of the Bold Beginnings report.