Nursery World - Take twos - questions of sufficiency

James Hempsall explores what sufficiency means within the funded
two-year-old offer, and how it could be used to drive up standards.

The latest statutory guidance asserts the desire to fund providers with a good or outstanding Ofsted inspection judgement for settings that have funded two-year-olds.

The Department for Education has been very clear that it considers Ofsted to be the sole arbiter of quality for this area. But local authorities can also fund settings judged 'requires improvement' if there is a need for more places - the sufficiency issue.

I think this has caused some confusion over the quality requirements for two-year-old providers, and I wanted to take this opportunity to set out what the intentions behind it are, and what opportunities there are for such providers now and in the future.

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