Nursery World - Editor’s view

It is perhaps a measure of how far the early years sector’s relationship with Ofsted has improved that after chief inspector Amanda Spielman’s speech at our Business Summit last week, there was no forest of hands wanting to complain about inadequate inspections and inspectors.

There has been hard work on both sides to get to this point. The Ofsted Big Conversation, which grew from a call to action by LEYF’s June O’Sullivan on the Nursery World LinkedIn group, has contributed greatly to this, with Ofsted senior leaders engaging enthusiastically.

Ofsted as an organisation has embraced change and improvement, and Ms Spielman promised that this would continue.

Much of what she said at the Summit went down well. The call for nurseries to embrace well-managed risk as a beneficial and necessary part of provision is particularly welcome. Ms Spielman acknowledged that Ofsted hadn’t always got this right in the past.

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