Nursery World - Analysis: Split decisions over Ofsted's future

As an MPs' committee calls for Ofsted to be split into separate inspectorates for education and care, Catherine Gaunt hears what the early years thinks.

Last month's report by the Education Select Committee, The role and performance of Ofsted, was unequivocal and damning in its judgement of Ofsted. It concluded that the body responsible for inspection and regulation for care and education should be divided, because it had grown too large to be effective and had lost its specialist focus (News, 21 April).

Graham Stuart MP, the committee's chair, said, 'We need a radical shift in how inspection operates in this country, with a more proportionate, specialist and focused approach.'

The report added, 'We are convinced that this division will not only raise the quality of inspection experience, but also the profile of what is currently Ofsted's non-education remit.'

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