Childminding quality indicators
These quality indicators are childminding-specific and cover all childminders including those who deliver funded ELC.
Education Scotland and the Care Inspectorate agree that for childminders who deliver funded ELC, the quality indicators in this section should be used for self-evaluation, and the quality indicator ‘Play and Learning’ should be used to satisfy the ‘National Standard’.
This means that childminders providing funded care do not need to self-evaluate against any additional quality indicators from elsewhere in the wider framework or other sector specific content.
Childminders delivering school aged childcare can also self-evaluate their service using the childminding sector specific content.
The structure of the framework
The quality indicators for childminding are grouped under four important headings:
Leadership
The quality indicators for leadership are:
Children thrive and develop in quality spaces
The quality indicator for 'children thrive and develop in quality spaces' is:
Children play and learn
The quality indicator for children play and learn is:
Supporting children to achieve
The quality indicators for supporting children to achieve are:
Illustrations of practice
All quality indicators have themes to support your self-evaluation. There are illustrations of practice for each theme. These describe what we might see in a setting where the quality of provision is ‘very good’.
There will be a ‘weak’ illustration for some quality indicators, where appropriate. For more information about the principles of this framework and the grading criteria, return to the framework home page.
