Early years providers will be able to contact Ofsted to raise concerns following an inspection, in changes to the way the inspectorate deals with complaints following inspections.
A report on the consultation carried out earlier this year on the plans shows that the changes are strongly backed by the early years sector, as the inspectorate confirmed it will go ahead with the plans from January.
Overall, Ofsted said that responses to all four of its proposals in the consultation on plans to change Ofsted’s post-inspection complaints process across all its inspection areas were ‘very positive’.
There were 1,576 online responses to the consultation, which ran between June and September, and across all of Ofsted's remits around 75 per cent were in favour of all the plans.
