Ofsted's New Education Inspection Framework: Hotspots and Emerging Trends

Ofsted's New Education Inspection Framework: Hotspots and Emerging Trends

Delivered by Pennie Akehurst, Early Years Fundamentals Ltd.

This course is currently fully booked.  However, we are asking people to join the waiting list and if there is enough additional interest we will hire a bigger venue.

Course Aim: To use identified trends and data taken from inspections under the new framework to help settings to evaluate their own practice against Ofsted's requirements. 

Course Information:The Early Years Inspection Handbook is the only thing that helps us to understand what Ofsted are looking at and for. It enables us to benchmark our practice and to identify areas of strength and those that need further work or attention, but even when we use this framework as a basis for self-evaluation, we may not be asking ourselves the right questions.

Inspection trends data can help us to understand areas that repeatedly lead to judgements of ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’. If we understand the kinds of actions and recommendations that inspectors frequently make about aspects of practice, we will be far more able to identify our own hotspots and areas for development.

Through our time together we will:

• Identify issues that are appearing with frequency in RI and inadequate inspection outcomes under the key headings of the new inspection framework
• Highlight the lessons that can be taken from the Ofsted inspections that have happened so far
• Provide you with hint, tips, audit questions and techniques that will enable you to evaluate the effectiveness of your current practice and highlight areas for improvement.

Delivered by: Pennie Akehurst, Managing Director of Early Years Fundamentals Ltd.

Pennie has worked in early years and childcare for 30 years, the last 17 of which have been spent delivering strategic early years and childcare priorities within 2 local authorities. 

Pennie has a proven track record of delivering support, training, challenge and intervention programmes which have enabled leaders, managers, teachers, and practitioners to continue to meet challenges in and changes to legislation and practice.

Pennie is a regular columnist in Nursery World writing about inspection trends and her first book 'Monitoring and Evaluation in the Early Years' is being published in July, closely followed by her second book ‘'The Education Inspection Framework: 101 questions to help you prepare’  which is being published in August.

Suitable for: Any Early Years Foundation Practitioners and Managers; Committee Members.

Date: Wednesday 5th February

Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm (Doors open at 5:40pm for refreshments)

Venue: Training Room 1 (Ground Floor), Chequers Bridge Centre, Painswick Road, Gloucester, GL4 6PR

Cost: PLEASE NOTE PATA'S NORMAL REFUND POLICY DOES NOT APPLY FOR THIS BOOKING.  WE ARE UNABLE TO GIVE REFUNDS OR CREDITS ONCE A BOOKING IS MADE.  WE CAN, HOWEVER, CHANGE THE NAME OF DELEGATES ATTENDING UP UNTIL MIDDAY THURSDAY 30TH JANUARY

FULL PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED WITHIN 7 DAYS OF THE INVOICE DATE BY BACS, CASH (AT THE PATA OFFICES) OR CHEQUE.  

Members:  £30

Non Members £45