Leading & Hosting a Successful Inspection (2025 Framework)

This practical half-day workshop gives early years leaders a clear, confident understanding of what inspection readiness looks like under the 2025 framework. Designed for managers, deputies and senior room leads, it breaks down the new expectations, highlights what inspectors will prioritise, and equips teams to demonstrate strong everyday practice.

Participants explore the revised EIF, the new Early Years Inspection Toolkit, and the shift towards a report-card style outcome with multiple evaluation areas. Through clear guidance, examples and checklists, leaders learn how to align their environment, systems and staff messaging with the updated approach, with particular attention to safeguarding, inclusion, curriculum, children’s progress, behaviour and routines, and leadership.

The session also builds confidence in leading the inspection day: communicating vision, responding to questions with clarity, and showcasing the setting’s strengths through evidence that already exists in daily practice. A strong focus on team readiness ensures all practitioners understand their part in the process and feel equipped for professional dialogue with inspectors.

Finally, leaders gain insight into how feedback will now be delivered and how to use it to drive meaningful improvement. The workshop concludes with structured reflection and action planning to support ongoing readiness and embed the language and expectations of the 2025 system into everyday practice.

Outcome: Attendees leave with practical tools, a clearer inspection strategy, and the confidence to lead their setting successfully through the new inspection landscape.