The newest figures are in stark contrast on the previous statistics, which showed that merged children’s centres were performing much worse in their Ofsted inspections than individual centres.
The ‘Children’s Centres Inspections and Outcomes’ statistics reveal that of the 112 single centre providers that were inspected between 1 November 2013 and 31 March 2014, 46 per cent (51) were found to require improvement.
This is an increase of 17 percentage points on the previous six months when 29 per cent (37) of standalone children’s centres were given this rating by Ofsted.
The latest figures also show that fewer individual centres were judged to be good or outstanding in comparison to those inspected between 1 April and 31 October 2013, while marginally fewer were found to be inadequate.
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