A new report by Ofsted has calculated that the cost to all private, voluntary, and independent nurseries in England of familiarising themselves with the revised CIF and the handbook for early years inspections was £577 per setting - or a total of £9,409,139.
The figure is derived from multiplying the average cost of £577 per nursery, based upon responses from a sample of childcare providers, by the total number of registered PVI settings.
Ofsted estimates the cost for all childminders to familiarise themselves with the revised framework at £2,810,202 - or £59 each.
For childminder costs, the inspectorate gathered evidence from 45 childminders who indicated it took one person a day to familiarise themselves with the updated guidance.
The calculations are based on a childminders’ annual salary of £13,000 (working 220 days per year), and the number of registered childminders as of September 2015 (47,558).
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