Jo Stephenson

Concerns over grades can contribute to an over-emphasis on bureaucracy at the expense of improving practice. Picture: wichayada/Adobe Stock
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Children’s services inspection

Children's Services
Childminding now competes with many other flexible career choices that may be less challenging and better paid. Picture: Oksana Kuzmina/Adobe Stock
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Tackling the fall in childminders

Childminding
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Progress in SEND

Special Educational Needs
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Schools and knife crime: Inspections Clinic

Education
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Inspections Clinic: Unregulated vs unregistered care

Residential and specialist care
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Inspections Clinic: Unregulated vs unregistered care

Residential and specialist care
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Inspections Clinic: Sector-led improvement

Children's Services
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Inspecting social work supervision

Social Care
Best Practice

Inspections Clinic: Five tips for outstanding residential care

Ofsted
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Designing better children's services

Children's Services
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Annual engagement meetings

Ofsted
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Inspections Clinic: Ofsted early years forum

Early Years