School age childcare quality indicators

These quality indicators apply to school age childcare settings only.

Childminders who provide care for school age children should self-evaluate their service using the quality indicators for childminding.

For all other provision types please refer to the early learning and childcare quality indicators.

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
Children are supported 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’.