The early years sector responded with anxiety to the news that Ofsted was to take over care inspections from local authorities. The idea conjured up images of an invasion of bureaucrats bullying childminders into a state of nervous exhaustion. The then chief inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead, offered little in the way of reassurance when he insisted that neither the head of the directorate, nor its management team, needed specific early years experience.
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