Early learning and childcare quality indicators
The quality indicators for early learning and childcare (ELC) should be used for all provision types, except for childminding and school age childcare services.
Heading |
Quality Indicator |
|---|---|
Leadership |
Leadership and management of staff and resources |
| Staff skills, knowledge, values and deployment | |
| Leadership of continuous improvement | |
Children thrive and develop in quality spaces |
Children experience high quality spaces. |
Children play and learn |
Playing, learning and developing |
| Curriculum | |
| Learning, teaching and assessment | |
Supporting children to achieve |
Nurturing care and support |
| Wellbeing, inclusion and equality | |
| Children’s progress | |
| Safeguarding and child protection |
This table shows the quality indicators for ELC 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’.
