Well, Ofsted certainly took the collective breath of the sector away with its first annual early years lecture, delivered last week by national director of education Sue Gregory.
For years, Ofsted has maintained that it doesn't make policy, merely inspects against the criteria that it is given. It has shied away from controversy.
Yet suddenly, it came out with all guns blazing, with Ms Gregory calling for early years funding to be focused on the most deprived areas, for the majority of early years staff to be qualified to graduate level in a much-faster timescale than Cathy Nutbrown suggests, and for childminders to provide care not education as they might not be up to the job of delivering all the EYFS!
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