What is Nursery Intelligence?

Little Bees Nursery Intelligence brings together what Ofsted publishes about every early years setting in England: report card grades, earlier overall ratings with the date they were given, and registration details. This directory is built from it.

It is free, for good. Sign up and you can also follow new inspections near you, compare your setting with its area, and look up the inspectors behind each report.

The data is Ofsted's, published under the Open Government Licence. Little Bees is not affiliated with Ofsted.

England at a glance

Legacy ratings

Before Nov 2025

14,961 settings with an overall rating

  • Outstanding 2,244 15%
  • Good 12,632 84%
  • Requires Improvement 64 <1%
  • Inadequate 21 <1%

Report card grades

After Nov 2025

17,220 graded areas across 3,168 report cards

  • Exceptional 60 <1%
  • Strong Standard 5,681 33%
  • Expected Standard 9,855 57%
  • Needs Attention 1,336 8%
  • Urgent Improvement 288 2%

3,168 report cards published since Nov 2025. 10,241 settings not yet inspected.

By region

By local authority

152 authorities

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Inspection information is published by Ofsted and reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Little Bees is not affiliated with Ofsted. Grade descriptions are our plain-English summaries of where each grade sits against the standard, not Ofsted's own criteria.