Nursery World - EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

Changes to the EYFS and new Ofsted framework are based on 'ideological and ill-informed' reasoning, early years experts warned at a conference last week.

Michael Freeston, the Early Years Alliance's director of quality improvement, who has been an outspoken critic of the proposed early learning goals, said the combination of the new goals and the new education inspection framework (EIF) meant that ‘Ofsted appears to be endorsing the cleave between early years provision in schools and that which is delivered by the "rest of us".'

While he applauded the proposed EIF's emphasis on curriculum, he was concerned that the school handbook which accompanies it, and which will apply to reception classes and nursery classes in schools, ‘had one reference to the EYFS as a phase children move through – it does not recognise the EYFS as the curriculum’.

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