School-aged childcare quality indicators
These quality indicators are specific to school-aged childcare. Childminders providing school-aged childcare can also use the childminding quality indicators to self-evaluate their service.
The quality indicators are grouped under four important headings:
- Leadership
- Children thrive and develop in quality spaces
- Children play and learn
- Supporting children to achieve
The structure of the quality indicators
Heading |
Quality Indicator |
|---|---|
Leadership |
leadership and management of staff and resources |
| staff skills, knowledge, values and deployment | |
Children thrive and develop in quality spaces |
children experience high quality spaces. |
Children play and learn |
play, learning and development |
Supporting children to achieve |
nurturing care and support |
| safeguarding and child protection |
This table shows the quality indicators across the four headings of the framework.
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.
