My point was that some individual inspectors interpret the child protection standard as being best met by such a practice. Other, individual inspectors challenge this requirement, and so do I.
The problem is that early years practitioners assume that their individual inspector speaks authoritatively for the organisation and so such messages get repeated as 'Ofsted says...'. Maurice Smith (Letters, 28 April) may wish that no Ofsted inspector would ever direct a nursery or childminder in a developmentally inappropriate way. But I am afraid that a proportion of inspectors do not have sound knowledge about child development or good early years practice, as the anonymous nursery manager described on the same Letters page.
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