A new ‘six-year window’ will be used by inspectors from January, when full inspections are due to restart following the Covid-19 pandemic, in a bid to introduce a “more proportionate and flexible approach” to inspecting nurseries and childminders that will prioritise the inspection of providers rated less than good.
Due to the Covid-19 crisis, full inspections have been suspended since March with plans for them to restart in the new year, however, Ofsted has said this is “continuously under review”.
Under previous arrangements, early years providers were inspected within a four-year cycle, however, this sometimes meant inspections could occur at the start of one cycle, and towards the end of the next, resulting in an eight-year gap between inspection visits.
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