Nursery World - Quality assurance, part 1 - E-Quality Counts: Helping staff to work together

The NDNA's online quality assurance scheme aims to maximise the potential of every individual to energise practice and keep it moving forward, as Mary Evans hears at the start of a new series.

Quality assurance schemes are set to become more significant in the early years sector in the next 12 months.

The schemes have been operating for around ten years, gaining steadily in recognition and popularity, but there are still a number of providers who are not involved.

When trading conditions are tough and settings are struggling to stand out from the crowd, the question is not so much whether you can you spare the time and money to sign up to a scheme, but whether you can afford not to.

All the signs are that quality assured settings will carry even more clout in the coming year. The Department for Education has to demonstrate that the money it has wrung out of the Treasury for funding the free entitlement to nursery education is being spent wisely and well.

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