Ofsted Inspection Services: A Case Study

In 2003 the government reviewed a new policy on inspection services. Its aim was to ensure that inspection keeps making useful contribution to local services (Mathews, 2004, p. 6). The value of inspection is to ensure that all childcare provisions meet every child’s needs in the setting where they are looked after. Morton (2014, Aug 08) suggests that, Ofsted inspection must assess how childcare settings deliver the EYFS. In addition to this, Ofsted assess childcare providers to make sure that they follow EYFS framework. They inspect to see whether the setting implemented Equality, Inclusion and Diversity policy to support children, parents and carers who come from different background and religion. As evidence the setting must have posters

The manager implements the principles and statutory guidance of the Early Years Foundation stage (EYFS) including the learning and development and the welfare requirements so that all children in our setting receives a high standard of care and development. Tassoni (2006, p.103) points out that, it is useful not just to prepare for inspection but also to make sure the setting keep the standard and be able to maintain it. In order to maintain the standard, we identify our weaknesses and strengths. The reason for our weaknesses is to understand what we need to do to be able to change weaknesses into strengths. We make sure that all children’s folders are in a proper and up to date. The manager keeps and prepares agendas and minutes for the meeting with staff from all previous meetings. The manager also keeps appraisals in one folder where she may be able to show inspectors when they come. The reason of appraisals is to inform Ofsted that the setting takes time to discuss any concerns affecting staff and to find out how a staff can be supported. We make sure that children’s planning is up to date as well as their learning journeys. The setting must keep any information about how they work together with parents. This information will give inspectors a clear insight that the setting meets parents as partnership policy for

Donaldson (2006, p. 7) emphasises that, self-evaluation can be a series of reflective professional development which may help the settings to understand and know themselves better and be able to identify their goals of improvements. Through self-evaluation, the setting will be able to know what they are doing well and what they are not doing well. This will help to improve any area where there is a weakness. Internal evaluation can help the setting of how they can improve the service to be able to meet children’s needs as well as parents/carers. By improving the service they may be able to give parents/carers questionnaires and reflect on feedback to improve the service. All the information gathered must be kept well as inspectors may need to look at them to find out how the setting has improved. However, if the setting plans to train staff as improvement, this may affect their achievements if the setting has no funds to fund needed training for the staff. This may be a disadvantage as it may affect their