Nursery World - Inspection Outcomes from the CIF to the EIF

It is too early to draw any conclusions from the results of the EIF inspections so far, explains Pennie Akehurst

While it seems to have become much harder for settings to gain Outstanding grades, it is too early to make any claims as to why this may be PHOTO Adobe Stock

Here at Early Years Fundamentals, it has been a while since we have been able to share our inspection analysis, but we now have four terms’ worth of data from Education Inspection Framework (EIF) inspections, which is helping us to understand what has happened over the past three years as we moved from the Common Inspection Framework (CIF) to the EIF.

Before I start, it is worth saying that our data always differs from that of Ofsted. We focus on the outcomes of inspections that happened in a specific term, whereas Ofsted publishes the most recent inspection outcomes for all providers, meaning that some of that data will be for settings that were inspected under the CIF. We, therefore, monitor inspection outcomes termly so that we can see any changes in the data, which enables us to ask questions.

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