More than 400 early years practitioners, sector leaders, childminders and nursery owners, gathered to have their say as part of a weekend of action.
The London group was expertly chaired by June O’Sullivan, chief executive of the London Early Years Foundation and the initial driving force behind the weekend, whose discussion on Nursery World’s Linkedin group had kickstarted the debate.
On Friday and Saturday, nine meetings were held across the country with the aim of finding solutions.
Each meeting had the same agenda, setting out to look for answers to seven key issues: Ofsted dual roles of regulation and improvement, Ofsted rationale for complaint-initiated inspections, going back more than ten years, Ofsted’s quality assurance process, inspector training and support, inspector decision making and feedback, significant incidents, and the new inspection regime in November.
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