Ofsted has, of course, been unable to carry out its usual schedule of full inspections across the early years sector during the pandemic, but it has produced its Covid-19 series of briefings, which have proved really illuminating.
The latest set of these were published in mid-December as I write (see news story on our website) and the early years report paints a vivid picture of life in settings from childminders to PVI providers to maintained nursery schools during the most challenging of times.
There were plenty of concerns about children’s development and safety, business viability and staff well-being, but also successes and joys found in new ways of working, which might have happened by necessity, but which could prove durable and beneficial.
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