The children's services watchdog has published a consultation outlining changes it wants to make to the way that nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are inspected.
Under the plans, the existing "satisfactory" rating will be replaced with "requires improvement" and settings that achieve this grade will face more frequent inspections and have four years to become "good".
Nurseries and pre-schools that fail to move up from "requires improvement" to "good" after two consecutive inspections are likely to be judged "inadequate".
And inadequate-rated settings that do not improve by the time of their next inspection will face having their registration cancelled.
Ofsted's chief inspector Michael Wilshaw said: "We must be tougher on weak settings.
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