Nursery World - NDNA says inspection of schools' twos provision will lack early years focus

The National Day Nurseries Association has raised concerns that schools providing two-year-old provision will not be scrutinised against early years quality assurance by Ofsted.

Giving evidence at the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill Committee yesterday, NDNA chief executive Purnima Tanuku argued that proposals in the Enterprise and Employment Bill to waive the requirement for schools to register as early years providers to provide two-year-old places will mean provision is not subjected to the specific early years registration inspection process.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Enterprise and Employment Bill, which includes proposals on the regulation of childcare provision, is currently going through the House of Commons.

Ms Tanuku went on to express fears that schools’ early years provision will receive a ‘light-touch’ Ofsted inspection, with just a paragraph of their inspection report referring to the care of young children.

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