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Know you are ready for Ofsted. Every single day.
One dashboard checks every record each morning and shows, area by area, how ready each setting is right now. It tells you exactly what to fix, long before an inspector asks.
Step by step
Green steps happen on their own. Terracotta steps are the only ones that need a person, usually one click.
- 1AutomaticChecked every morning
Staff checks, training, policy signatures and safeguarding actions are checked before you arrive.
- 2AutomaticEach area marked
Green for ready, amber for something that needs doing soon, for every Ofsted area.
- 3AutomaticGaps turned into a to-do list
What needs doing, in which setting, and who needs to do it.
- 4AutomaticReminders already sent
The right people are nudged for you before you even look.
- 5YouYou glance at the dashboard
One screen for every setting. Fix anything still amber.
- 6AutomaticFixed items turn green
As records come in, the dashboard updates by itself.
- 7AutomaticEvidence kept ready
Your inspection evidence is gathered and up to date every day.
- No surprises on inspection day
What happens
Every morning the system looks at every record that matters for an inspection. That means DBS and right to work checks, first aid and safeguarding certificates, training, policy signatures, supervisions and safeguarding actions.
Each Ofsted area gets a simple colour. Green means ready. Amber means something needs doing soon. You see this for every setting on one screen, so oversight never depends on someone's memory or a spreadsheet.
Anything amber becomes a clear to-do: what, where and who. In most cases the reminder has already gone to the person who needs to act, so by the time you look, it is already being fixed.
When Ofsted calls, one button switches on inspection day mode. It pulls together everything an inspector usually asks for, with a briefing sheet for the manager.
Area names follow Ofsted's early years inspection areas. We update them as Ofsted's framework changes, so you are always checking against the current rules.
What you get
You know where you stand today, not on the day the inspector arrives.
Owners and groups see every setting on one screen, the same day a gap appears.
Reminders go out by themselves, so you stop being the person who chases.
You can show an inspector, at any moment, that leaders know what is happening.
What you still decide
The system does the running around. The decisions that matter stay with you.
- What to do about anything amber, and who should do it.
- When to press inspection day mode.
- Which settings and people each manager can see.
Good to know
How often is it checked?
Every morning, automatically. You don't have to press anything.
Does it work for one nursery as well as a group?
Yes. A single nursery sees its own areas. A group sees every setting on one screen.
What happens when Ofsted changes its framework?
We update the areas the dashboard checks against, so it keeps matching what inspectors look for.
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