School-aged childcare quality indicators
The structure of the framework
The quality indicators for school-aged childcare 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 experience high quality spaces.
Children play and learn
The quality indicator for children play and learn is play, learning and development.
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.
