The move is in response to the findings of a consultation with the sector, held last September, which found that 82 per cent of respondents were against the proposal.
Ofsted had argued that the introduction of childminder agencies - which involve childminders registering with an agency and not with Ofsted - would mean that reporting on childminder trends would be ‘unreliable’.
The inspectorate currently publishes two sets of statistics on the sector: ‘Registered childcare providers and places in England’ and ‘Early years and childcare registered providers inspections and outcomes’, which appear separately and different times of the year.
It had also proposed changing the frequency of the statistics, combining them and making them more focused and user-friendly.
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