However, Ms Akehurst warned that as the Education Inspection Framework (EIF) 'beds in', the sector may see more Requires Improvement (RI) outcomes.
During Nursery World's Business Summit in London today, the former Ofsted inspector, revealed early results from her analysis of the first 254 PVI inspection reports published since the new EIF was introduced in September.
The analysis shows that a total of 82 per cent of providers achieved a good or outstanding result.
However, 45 settings received a Requires Improvement (RI) or Inadequate grade.
According to Ms Akehurst, this mirrors results from previous inspection cycles in 2018 and 2019.
However, as Ms Akehurst traditionally analyse much larger sample sizes of between 600 and 800 reports, she said this was only an emerging picture and no definitive conclusions could be drawn, but said nonetheless it was ‘pleasing’.
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