Quality Practice
The development of high quality playcare is fundamental to the 10 year strategy for childcare, offering the best choices and opportunities for all our children.
OSN is committed to support the quality improvement process. We can support you to improve the quality of your provision with advice and support on:-
- The EYFS
- Effective, enabling environments
- Observation, assessment and planning
- Network groups
- Welfare requirement support
- Self – assessment and evaluation
- Audit tools
Sheffield’s aim is for all it’s providers to achieve a ‘Good’ Ofsted outcome. Things that we would expect to see from a ‘Good’ provision would be:-
- Follow the Playwork principles
- Have a child centred approach
- Offer a range of activities and resources
- Support equal opportunities
- Consult with children, families and the local community
- Implement policies and procedures that reflect practice
- Monitor and evaluate the service they offer
- Source feedback from all stakeholders
- Support ongoing staff training and development
