The changes apply to all children's services, but council chiefexecutives and directors of children's services are awaiting furtherdetails on the arrangements from the inspectorate.
Dwynwen Stepien, chair of the Local Authority Early Years Network, said:"This has the potential to reduce inconsistencies between authoritiesand Ofsted assessment of the quality of early years settings."
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