School age childcare quality indicators

The quality indicators for school age childcare should be used for 

Quality indicators structure

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 school age childcare 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’.