On Tuesday 11 March, we heard directly from Ofsted about their proposed plans for inspecting early years settings. Then, in the second part of the webinar we invite the attendees to you to share their views about the proposed changes with PACEY – importantly, helping us inform our response to the consultation.

About the consultation

Ofsted want to know what you think about their proposed plans for inspecting early years.

In summary, they propose:

• Report cards – these would give parents and carers more detailed information than the current reports, including a new 5-point grading scale to evaluate more areas of a provider’s work and short summaries of what inspectors found.
• Education inspection toolkits – this tool shows providers and inspectors the evaluation areas that Ofsted will focus inspections on and how they’ll assess and grade providers.
• Inspection methodology – changes to how they carry out inspection.

Supporting documents

• Improving the way Ofsted inspects education – GOV.UK
• Improving the way Ofsted inspects education: consultation document – GOV.UK
• Early years inspection toolkit
• Improving the way Ofsted inspects education: proposals explained for education professionals

If you weren’t able to make the webinar but would like to share your thoughts with us to help inform our response, or find out more to inform your own response, you can find the recording of Ofsted’s part of our webinar and the presentation slides with our questions and some contextual information below.