Nursery World - The Big Debate: Should Ofsted scrap the overall judgement grade for early years settings?

We asked two early years providers to share their views

YES

Nigel and Chris Dakin

OWNERS OF THE DOLLS HOUSE NURSERY, LEICESTER (PRE-SCHOOL AND NURSERY REGISTERED AS TWO SETTINGS)

The 20th birthday of our nursery saw a period in which our staff team worked through Covid lockdown.

Our pre-school was awarded Ofsted Inadequate (from Outstanding), which closed half of our operation and saw a talented young manager resign from the childcare sector. Shortly afterwards, our nursery received a ruling of ‘requires improvement’ (from Good) on what remained of our nursery.

Just one word from Ofsted, and we are expected to explain to our supportive parents why we are not adequate to care for their child, and why the local authority, potentially, will be removing the funding for their child's nursery place.

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