Monitoring and improvement

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Monitoring and improvement
March 2008
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Ofsteds role in improvement

• Local authority retains the role to provide
  information, advice and training to childcare
  providers
• Ofsteds role
• improvement through inspection and monitoring
• improvement through enforcement arrangements
• provide information to other authorities such as
• Her Majestys Revenue and Customs local
  authorities

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Ofsteds escalating tariff

• Same principles as now
• Seek to bring about improvement without formal
  enforcement action wherever possible
• Will take enforcement action when
• the provider cannot improve without external
  support
• the provider is unwilling to improve
• children are at risk of harm

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What action can Ofsted take?

• Notice of action to improve (non-statutory)
• Enforcement notice (unregistered childminding)
• Welfare requirements notice (compliance notice)
• Suspension of registration
• Impose/remove/amend conditions of registration
  (as a routine matter or as an emergency)
• Cancellation of registration (as a routine matter
  or as an emergency)
• Prosecution offences similar to now

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Whats new?
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Changes from September 2008

• Can cancel childminder registration (both
  registers) if not provided childminding for more
  than three years
• Possible one month notice for prosecutions for
  failing to comply with welfare requirements
  notice
• No welfare requirements notice for learning and
  development
• Cannot cancel registration if time for welfare
  requirements notice has not passed

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Welfare requirements

• Very similar to current arrangements under
  National Standards
• Providers must
• meet welfare requirements
• have regard to guidance in section 3 of the
  statutory framework
• Offences similar to now, for example
  non-compliance
• Some minor changes in events to be notified to
  Ofsted (such as notifiable diseases)

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Learning and development requirements

• No statutory compliance or requirements notice
• Not an offence not to comply but Ofsted can
  take non-compliance into account when taking
  other enforcement action
• New arrangements monitoring inadequate category
  2 provision
• Need to consider how long we continue to monitor
  before we take other steps, for example
  cancellation

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Other developments affecting Ofsteds role in
improvement
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Some other key changes

• Introduction of the new barring scheme under the
  Independent Safeguarding Authority
• Possible publication of more information on the
  website
• registers
• complaints
• compliance and enforcement matters