Nursery World - Ofsted paper chase disrupts nurseries

Disgruntled nursery owners in England have complained that Ofsted's Early Years Directorate has caused them disruption and delay by returning their applications for police checks and asking them to re-apply using Ofsted stationery. The Directorate's decision has affected nursery managers who applied to their local social services departments for staff to be police-checked before Ofsted took over the job of regulating daycare.

The Directorate's decision has affected nursery managers who applied to their local social services departments for staff to be police-checked before Ofsted took over the job of regulating daycare.

Brian Griffith, who owns Burton Latimer Day Nursery in Northamptonshire with his wife, sent off application forms for police checks to the county council social services department on 22 August. At the end of August he received a letter saying the department had been unable to process them and had passed them on to Ofsted. Then, near the end of September, he received a letter from Ofsted saying they could not be processed because they were on social services forms and he was asked to re-apply using the Ofsted form.

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