Nursery World - Common Inspection Framework: Part 2

In the second part of a series on Ofsted's new framework, the
Pre-School Learning Alliance's Michael Freeston picks through the
paperwork and asks what inspections will look like now

When any policy change occurs, a raft of accompanying guidance emerges alongside. The Common Inspection Framework (CIF), designed to bring together the inspection frameworks for early years, schools, further education and skills, necessarily has its fair share. For the early years sector there are no less than three relevant new handbooks plus a summary guide to the new arrangements entitled The Future of Education Inspection: understanding the changes. This is in addition to the compliance and registration guidance already in existence.

The accompanying documents talk about the new focus, and detail how inspections will be undertaken, what they cover and judgements that will be made. The relevant documents are:

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