Pre-school Education

(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Ofsted early years inspectors are employed (a) nationally and (b) in each region.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 10th February 2017

Ofsted has stated that, at present, it directly employs 106 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Early Years Inspectors, which is a head count of 108. This is broken down regionally by FTE as follows:

Region

Number of Inspectors (FTE)

East Midlands

9.2

East of England

11.6

London

19.8

North East, Yorkshire and Humber

14.7

North West

11.9

South East

17.8

South West

11.0

West Midlands

10.0

Until 31 March 2017, early years inspection will also be delivered through contracts with two external inspection service providers, Prospects and Tribal. From 3 April 2017 all early years inspection will be delivered by Ofsted. Ofsted anticipates that it will transfer in a total of 167 people to directly employed inspection roles from these providers. This will be supplemented by an additional 277 contracted inspectors.

This new workforce will be managed centrally for a period of two years and during this time Ofsted plans to transition the central workforce to Ofstedā€™s regional structure.

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