Jane Wotherspoon HMI, National Lead for the Early Years Foundation Stage, spoke at 'Next steps for early years - extending provision, building capacity and developing the workforce': a Westminster Education Forum event on 19 April 2016.

1. The common inspection
framework
How the new framework is working
in practice
Jane Wotherspoon Her Majesty’s Inspector
National Lead, Early Years
CIF: how is it working in practice?

2.  Inspect the right things in the right way through
a standardised inspection framework
 Provide comparable and accurate information
for parents, carers, learners and employers to inform
their choices
 Deliver timely inspections where there are signs of
decline or improvement
 Have a proportionate approach to inspections
 Ensure rigorous quality of all inspections.
Principles of inspection
reform
CIF: how is it working in practice?

3. Understanding the changes

4. Inspectors make graded judgements, using the four-
point scale, on the following areas:
 Effectiveness of leadership and
management
 Quality of teaching, learning and
assessment
 Personal development, behaviour and
welfare
 Outcomes for children and learners.
They also make a written judgement about the
effectiveness of safeguarding in the provision.
Common Inspection Framework (CIF)

5. CIF: how is it working in practice?
 Pre-schools and nurseries
now have half a day’s notice
of a routine cycle inspection
 Specific judgement on
teaching, learning and
assessment
 Separate judgement on
outcomes
Main changes for early years

6. CIF: how is it working in practice?
 Good and outstanding
maintained nursery
schools have a short
inspection every three
years
Main changes for early years

7. CIF: how is it working in practice?
Inspections carried out by 31 December 2015 and published as at 31 January 2016.
Grade profile for the autumn term

8. CIF: how is it working in practice?
Inspections carried out by 31 December 2015 and published as at 31 January 2016.
CIF judgements

9. CIF: how is it working in practice?
The impact of qualifications – inspections to March 2015

10. CIF: how is it working in practice?
The impact of qualifications – inspections to March 2015