Question follow-through · 71852
Pre-school Education: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing unannounced Ofsted inspections in early years settings.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 25 Sept 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing unannounced Ofsted inspections in early years settings.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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25 Sept 2025
Answer published
While Ofsted does typically provide notice before an inspection in early years, inspections without prior notification do happen, particularly when concerns have been raised about a setting or if a previous inspection resulted in a grade of ‘Inadequate’.B...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Armed Forces: Children
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