Changes to childcare inspections

Nursery World
24 July 2003

Changes to childcare inspections for nurseries and childminders in England have been outlined in two leaflets published by Ofsted last week. The first leaflet, Building better childcare - Daycare: Children Act and nursery education inspections from April 2003, explains Ofsted's new grading system, where at the end of the inspection the inspector will judge the quality of the provision to be either good, satisfactory or unsatisfactory, depending on whether the provider has completed actions raised at the transition inspection. Providers will then be inspected at least once between April 2003 and March 2005. The second leaflet, Building better childcare -...

 

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