turn in forthcoming meetings between the inspectorate and the early
years sector.
Ofsted has just slipped into its annual report the fact that it has renewed the contracts for outsourced inspections with Tribal and Prospects until March 2017, something of a blow to the sector after continual calls for early years inspections to be brought in-house.
The move goes against recent improvements in communication and a willingness to engage with the sector that had really helped to mend the fractured relationship that had developed over claims of unfairness and inconsistency. It is not that all inspectors for the third-party organisations are below par, but that too many have fallen short of what is needed.
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