Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 67187

Pre-school Education: Inspections

Tabled: 11 July 2025
Answered: 23 July 2025

Question

Tom Morrison

Liberal DemocratCheadle

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Ofsted plans to update its guidance to inspectors on (a) identifying and (b) responding to (i) serious and (ii) repeated safeguarding breaches in early years settings.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The department works closely with Ofsted in our work monitoring and reviewing the safeguarding requirements within the early years foundation stage statutory framework to ensure children are kept as safe as possible.As announced in the recent Best Start i...

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