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 care to children of school age can also self-evaluate their service using the four headings and quality indicators within the childminding sector specific content.
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 |
Playing, learning and developing |
Supporting children to achieve |
Nurturing care and support |
| Safeguarding and child protection |
This table shows the quality indicators for childminding 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’ or ‘weak’.
