Nursery World - Interview - Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for regulation and social care

In November, Ofsted published a report exploring the roles and responsibilities of nursery groups in England. It focuses on understanding how multiple providers – those that own two or more settings – influence policy and practice across individual nurseries. Following the report, Ofsted has called for greater oversight of multiple providers.

Yvette Stanley

WHY DID YOU CARRY OUT RESEARCH INTO MULTIPLE PROVIDERS?

As a regulator it is important that we continue to keep pace with changes in the sector and that we hold the right people to account for the right things.

While we have some insight from our inspection work on multiple providers, we did this research to gain a deeper understanding about the level of oversight they have of individual settings, and the level of autonomy and flexibility individual settings may have. As a result, we were able to reflect on our own policy and practice, to make sure we capture the ‘right’ information during inspection and hold the relevant people to account.

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