Ofsted education inspection framework: nurseries, pre-schools, other registered early years settings

Video Overview & Insights

In early September 2025, we published our renewed education inspection framework. This framework sets out Ofsted's inspection principles and the grades that inspectors give. It will come into effect from November 2025.

In this webinar, we explain how we will carry out inspections of registered early years settings, such as nurseries or pre-schools. We discuss:

- how we designed our renewed inspection framework

- the main changes

- the new evaluation areas

- inspection toolkit

- how inspections will look and feel

- what happens at each stage of inspection and post-inspection

We also answer questions from the audience.

Our panel:

- Jayne Coward, Deputy Director, Early Years Regulatory Policy and Practice

- Wendy Ratcliffe, Principal Officer, Early Education

- Sam Sleeman-Boss, Early Education, Quality and Practice Lead

For more information about these changes, visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/improving-the-way-ofsted-inspects-education?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ofsted_2025_response