The eight-week consultation outlines plans to inspect childminder agencies in the same way as other early years settings with no notice inspections and judgements of outstanding, good, requires improvement, and inadequate.
In the document - ‘Inspecting childminder agencies’, Ofsted acknowledges that its proposed inspection arrangements will need to be ‘flexible enough’ to cover a wide range of business models, from very small community-based agencies to ‘potentially large national private sector businesses’.
For this reason, no method of self-evaluation is prescribed in the proposed framework, leaving agencies free to provide the inspector with any evidence of ‘whatever’ system it uses to evaluate practices.
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