The quality grading scheme, due to be announced this week, will rate settings as good, satisfactory or unsatisfactory. It will be introduced in the next cycle of inspections, which will span from 2003 to 2005, and follows Ofsted's completion of transitional inspections of all childcare providers in England after taking over responsibility for regulation from local authorities in September 2001.
Chief inspector David Bell said, 'These steps are being introduced to give an even higher priority to safeguarding the interests of young children being cared for by others, and as a means of focusing inspection resources on those where there is need of improvement.'
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