‘Are you ready? Good practice in school readiness’ is a survey which aims to capture how the most successful early years providers ensure disadvantaged and vulnerable children are better prepared to start school.
The inspectorate visited children’s centres, childminders, pre-schools, and primary and infant schools delivering the EYFS, selected on the basis that they were providing good outcomes for children in deprived areas.
A major finding of the survey was that children do not make rapid enough progress because ‘far too many’ settings pass on unreliable assessments. Ofsted puts this down to there having been no nationally set baseline which defines school readiness.
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