In her seventh and final Annual Report as Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman highlights both the progress of Ofsted as well as acknowledging the current challenges the sector faces.
Challenges include a less qualified workforce; difficulties in recruiting and retaining; more children presenting with additional needs and a lack of training to support them as well as lack of external expert support.
Only a few days earlier, Ofsted also published new statistics which showed that there were more than 500 fewer nurseries and pre-schools in September compared with the previous September.
Ms Spielman is the longest-serving chief inspector since Ofsted was established and is the only one to have served and experienced system disruption from a pandemic.
