Inspections of early years settings will be conducted directly by Ofsted from next year, it has been announced. The inspectorate said it will take responsibility for early years inspections from April ...

The Care Quality Commission is set to miss key inspection deadlines that it had already pushed back. CQC admits it is falling behind on inspection timetable The regulator had already pushed back its ...

A NEW headteacher is building on work to improve a small primary school in the wake of a critical inspection report. Sacred Heart RC Primary School, in Northallerton, was given formal notice to ...

Re-inspections of local authority children's services that have been rated "inadequate" by Ofsted will be made more proportionate, it has been announced. The regulator said it wants to change ...

The CQC will scale back its inspections for GP practices once every provider has been assessed, and move to a ‘risk-based’ approach. The move, which was previously mooted by the CQC’s chief inspector ...

Elderly residents found in their own faeces, a lack of food and no hot water. The appalling conditions inspectors have found in some of Norfolk's care homes have put the industry in the spotlight.

Thursday's meetings at Newcastle and Clonmel will go ahead as planned after passing morning inspections, although Warwick was forced to abandon after temperatures plummeted to -7C. Officials at ...