We want to make it as easy as possible for you to find all the information you need from us so that you can focus on the children you educate and care for. This blog explains some of the resources we have published and how they might be useful to you.
Information about early years Ofsted inspectionsYou can read the full guidance about our renewed approach to early years inspections on GOV.UK.
The page contains the early years inspection toolkit, operating guide for inspectors, and more information about early years inspections.
We have also published a blog post where we answer frequently asked questions about early years inspections. We will keep the post up to date so please bookmark it.
We also explain the role of the nominee in early years inspections on YouTube.
Find Ofsted on social mediaOur YouTube channel is home to all our videos, including recordings of our webinars about the renewed inspection framework. We often hold childminder webinars but if you’re unable to make them, you can watch them back. We also have a playlist for childminders and a playlist for registered early years providers.
We also have a YouTube series of early years FAQs for providers and practitioners. Each short video features an early years inspector answering a common question about inspection practice and the EYFS.
The videos are freely available so please do share them with colleagues and with anyone else you think might find them useful. We will continue to release more videos.
We have a Facebook page dedicated to childminders and other early years providers, where we post regularly about Ofsted news and updates about the early years. We also host Facebook Live sessions which we advertise on the page.
We also post in-depth updates on our LinkedIn page.
We post on the Ofsted X account about all our remits, news, publications, events and more. We also share our early years videos, blogs and news stories here.
Stay up to date with this blogWe regularly share posts on this early years blog to help you to understand what we do and keep you updated with our work.
You can see our previous blog posts and subscribe to receive an email notification when we post a new blog.
https://earlyyears.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/12/early-years-resources-information-and-updates/
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