Yvette Stanley, National Director, Social Care and Regulation

Yvette Stanley is Ofsted's National Director for Social Care

Registering and inspecting school-based early years provision: what the updated guidance means for you  

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In this blog, we take you through the changes we’ve made to our guidance on registering and inspecting school-based provision to reflect how we are seeing early years or childcare provision being delivered.   Our updated guidance offers clearer definitions and …

Highlights from our area SEND inspection framework review

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As you may know, we recently reviewed the area special educational needs and disabilities (area SEND) inspection framework. We’ve just published our findings from that review and shared our next steps, so we wanted to talk you through the most …

Our review of the area SEND inspection framework

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Through the Big Listen, children, parents, carers and professionals told us that the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system is ‘broken’. Families shared heartbreaking stories of their fight to get the right support. Frustrated professionals told us that they …

What is peer-on-peer abuse?

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Sean Harford, National Director for Education, and Yvette Stanley, National Director for Social Care, discuss peer-on-peer abuse: what it is, what schools should be doing when it happens and how we’ve trained our inspectors to recognise it.