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Inspection: Part 4 – Disqualifications - Suitability checks

Monday, December 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Ex-Ofsted inspector Debbie Alcock continues her analysis of disqualifications, looking at providers’ obligations to check the suitability of staff

Removal of LAs' early years quality role raises alarm

News

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.

All in a day's work - self-evaluation

Features

Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Completing the new Self-Evaluation Form is no mean feat, say Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell, joint managers of Oakey Dokeys Pre-School in Essex.

Ofsted to run consultation on paid-for inspection details

News

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’

News

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

News

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

News

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

| Nursery World

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

Ofsted Big Conversation South East

Other

Friday, April 1, 2016

| Nursery World

...INCLUDING a focus on 'Narrowing The Gap'

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 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.

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

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.

Ofsted calls for early years experts

News

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

News

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.

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 9: Partnerships

Features

Monday, October 15, 2018

| Nursery World

With the 30 hours leading to more children attending multiple settings, Pennie Akehurst finds the common areas settings can improve on when it comes to working together

Ofsted: We want to hear from you!

Opinion

Monday, January 21, 2019

| Nursery World

The education inspection framework consultation presents an opportunity for childminders, nursery providers and managers, says Gill Jones

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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?

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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.

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