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Nursery Management: Inspection - In the frame

Pennie Akehurst, managing director of Early Years Fundamentals, discusses the changes she has seen in inspections since the advent of the new Education Inspection Framework

Irun a research company which focuses on analysing hundreds of Ofsted inspection reports each term so we can better understand the nature of the issues that lead to inadequate and RI outcomes.

We have been doing this for around three years and, until September 2019, similar issues would come up term after term. However, the data from the autumn term onward has started to show a very different picture.

When I spoke at the Nursery World Business Summit in November, I shared details of the emerging picture for the first 254 reports published since September. Our first set of analysis established that 82 per cent of providers had been able to achieve a Good or better inspection outcome.

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