Ofsted’s annual report for 2015/16 finds that there are now almost the same proportion of good and outstanding nurseries in the most deprived areas of the country as the least deprived.
For the sixth year in a row, the proportion of good and outstanding nurseries, pre-schools and childminders has risen and is now at 91 per cent.
Quality in primary schools has also greatly improved with the proportion of them graded good and outstanding up from 69 per cent to 90 per cent.
Sir Michel Wilshaw, launching his fifth and final annual report as outgoing chief inspector, hailed the ‘remarkable gains’ made by children under 11 over the past five years.
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