early years

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 …

Testing our proposals to improve education inspections

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Earlier this month, we launched a public consultation on our new approach to inspecting education providers. This includes new toolkits for how we will inspect, and the introduction of report cards. We want to hear from parents, carers, learners and …

Staff qualifications in nurseries and pre-schools: do they make a difference to outcomes?

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There are 27,200 nurseries and pre-schools in England, offering places to 1 million children. They cover 80% of all childcare places on Ofsted’s Early Years Register (EYR). The remaining 20%...