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Ofsted calls for stronger 'oversight' of large providers

Monday, November 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Ofsted is calling for stronger regulatory powers to ensure early years providers with multiple settings are having a positive impact on children.

Coronavirus: Call for early years inspections to be put on hold

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted is being urged to temporarily suspend routine early years inspections in light of the ongoing coronavirus spread.

Ofsted makes registration process more straightforward for childcarers

News

Thursday, February 20, 2020

| Nursery World

Ofsted has updated its online registration system to make the process easier for early years providers and help stop delays which had been affecting prospective childminders.

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.

Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education

Other

Monday, January 21, 2019

| Nursery World

Ofsted has opened a consultation on its new Education Inspection Framework.

'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.

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?

Childcare red tape review reveals confusion and high cost of regulation

News

Friday, December 16, 2016

| Nursery World

Paperwork costs childcare providers more than £17m a year, a Government review into cutting red tape has found.

Sector responds to cutting red tape review

News

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

| Nursery World

The sector has responded boldly to the Government’s review of the red tape burdening early years provision, amid fears of a ‘tipping point’.

Nursery Management: References - An impossible requirement?

Features

Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Ofsted wants nurseries to seek staff references – but an employer was recently sued for providing a negative one. Beena Nadeem investigates how settings can weigh up the options

Bringing Ofsted inspection under our direct control

Opinion

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

| Nursery World

Gill Jones, Ofsted Early Education Deputy Director explains the move to bring early years inspections in house

New framework for childminder agency inspection released

News

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

| Nursery World

Childminding agencies will either be judged as ‘effective’ or ‘non-effective’ by Ofsted during their inspections, new guidance reveals.

Ofsted childcare fees set to rise

News

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.