Review practice

High quality, inclusive early years and childcare providers will carry out regular self-evaluation to ensure that they continue to offer the best provision that they can to effectively meet children’s needs.

The following resources and tools can be used to support providers to reflect on their provision and plan their ongoing improvement journey.

• Accessibility audit - can be found under the supported transition (pre-entry and moving to a new setting) section
• Overview audit of learning environment (Word, 55KB) - Template to help you review your current learning environment and plan improvements
• Quality improvement criteria (PDF, 423KB) - A tool to support providers in self-reflecting on the quality of their provision.
• Setting improvement plan template 1 (Word, 130KB)
• Setting Improvement plan template 2 (Word, 25KB)

The Birth To 5 Matters website has a range of information and research to support you to reflect on and develop your learning environment, including:

• Learning Environments
• Quality improvement and leadership resources
• Community Playthings training resources - free learning resources which can support and develop learning environments and the experiences offered to children
• Inspiring Environments – toolkit, developed by pacey, for practitioners to develop an environment that supports children’s well-being, learning and development