Ofsted’s latest statistics for early years inspections show that the number of early years providers achieving good and outstanding grades from inspectors at their most recent inspection has increasedby three percentage points since the last statistics were published.
The latest figures show that of the 6,140 full inspections of providers carried out between 1 November 2013 and 31 March 2014, 70 per cent were judged good or outstanding.
The latest Ofsted figures focus on the five-month period following the inspecting body’s move last November to replace the ‘satisfactory’ judgement with ‘requires improvement’. Twenty-one per cent of the inspections carried out between November 2013 and March 2014 received a judgement of requires improvement.
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