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Quality Indicators

The Ealing Quality Indicators have been developed by Ealing Early Years Childcare and Play. They are intended for managers, practitioners, development workers and LA consultants working within maintained, non-maintained settings, childminding and out of school services.

Aims 

• To provide a measure of quality and effectiveness which is responsive to the settings’ uniqueness and is also valid within national standards frameworks.
• To support managers and practitioners in identifying key strengths and areas for improvement. 
• To provide evidence for the accurate completion of the OfSTED self-evaluation form.

The Quality Indicators detail standards identified as ‘good to outstanding’ where all children are making very good progress, ‘satisfactory to good’ where some improvement is needed but the majority of children are making good progress and ‘inadequate’ where children are making unsatisfactory progress. This process is very much dependent upon regular monitoring and evaluation of standards combined with a professional dialogue between managers, practitioners, consultants and development workers.

To support with observations and recommendations the team have created "Key Evidence" which is specific to out of school childcare, this is a working document and will be regularly updated.