On Tuesday the Education Committee will question His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, as part of its twice-yearly scrutiny of Ofsted, focusing on the watchdog’s progress over the past year.

The session offers MPs an important opportunity to scrutinise the Department for Education’s approach to major issues against a backdrop of significant reform, as well as financial pressures, across the education system.

The Committee has been investigating the access, affordability and quality of early years provision, among other issues including the safeguarding of children in early years settings.

The Education and Work and Pensions Committees will take evidence from local government and charities working on the frontlines of the battle against child poverty about their experiences delivering the government’s child poverty strategy.