Schools and further education and skills providers with good grades will also receive more frequent but shorter inspections every three years.
Although there are no plans to introduce this for early years providers with good grades at this time, Ofsted said it intended to return to the issue and the inspection of early years settings that are co-located with and managed by a school, at a later date.
However, the proposal for shorter, more frequent inspections does not apply to outstanding provision, as this would require a change in law.
As already confirmed, Ofsted will bring inspections in-house for schools and FE providers from September 2015, with the majority of inspections led by HMIs.
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