Question follow-through · 67186
Pre-school Education: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of introducing unannounced inspections in early years settings on levels of continuous safety compliance.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of introducing unannounced inspections in early years settings on levels of continuous safety compliance.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
While Ofsted typically provides notice before an inspection, they can and do conduct inspections without prior notification, particularly when concerns have been raised about a setting or if a previous inspection resulted in a grade of ‘Inadequate’. Betwe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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