The findings from Ofsted’s latest Children’s centre inspections and outcomes, based on inspections carried out in the first three months of the new inspection framework (1 April-30 June 2013), show that of the ten children’s centres operating as group providers that were inspected, 20 per cent were rated inadequate.
Just 10 per cent of children’s centre clusters or ‘hub and spoke’ models were rated good and none outstanding.
Under the new inspection framework introduced in April, a group of children’s centres sharing leadership and management are inspected together and receive a joint report.
Nursery World reported last month that three Greater Manchester children’s centres had been judged inadequate by Ofsted less than six months after they became a ‘cluster’.
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