Nursery World - Early years providers have much to celebrate

Feedback from the new inspections is heartening, writes Gill Jones

It is four months into the new inspection arrangements – how have you found them?

It is early days, but late last week we published figures about the outcomes of almost 3,500 inspections under the new way of inspecting early years settings. These figures do not indicate a significant change in our judgements since we implemented the common inspection framework on 1 September.

We will have to wait until March 2016 to see official statistics about how early years providers have fared under the new common inspection framework. At that point we will publish statistics about inspection outcomes of childcare providers as of 31 December 2015.

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