Gill Jones, our Deputy Director for Early Education, sets out how we look at early reading and phonics teaching as part of our new...

There are 27,200 nurseries and pre-schools in England, offering places to 1 million children. They cover 80% of all childcare places on...

On a one-day early years inspection I have to gather a lot of evidence. This helps me to reach an accurate rating at the end of the day –...

Our inspectors often encounter myths about inspection. These make our work harder and impact on those we inspect. So we’ve launched a...

With children under the age of five being cared for and taught in a range of different settings, often with slightly differing regulatory...

As the academic year comes to a close, we'd like to say thank you to all those involved with schools, early years and further education...

Back in June last year, when Ofsted announced the changes to inspection under the common inspection framework, we also explained how we...

Many of you will have read or heard about the Government’s White Paper: Educational Excellence Everywhere, published last week,...

Gill Jones, Ofsted's Deputy Director for Early Education, writes about future changes to our arrangements for the inspection and...

As summer comes to an end it is back to work for many of us, be that for schools, colleges or nurseries.  I hope that everyone is...

In the last month we have run eight national launch conferences to explain the changes to Ofsted inspection coming in September. At these...