If this were to continue it would mean 3,000 fewer complaint-driven inspections a year.
As Nursery World revealed in an interview with Nick Hudson, early education director, Ofsted was trialling a new more proportionate approach to dealing with the complaints it receives about about early years settings, by removing the 30-day brought-forward option for inspections.
The full evaluation of the pilot is yet to be completed, but if put into place would lead to a dramatic fall in the number of inspections triggered by a complaint.
Before the pilot started, Ofsted received 1,063 concerns during April and this led to 342 complaint-driven inspections.
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