Valuing Quality in the Early Years: Improving the quality of provision in all Early Years settings

Carmen Mohamed, a lecturer in education at Leicester University,and Sarah Lissaman, an Early Years Consultant, have come up with asimple, self evaluation format, linked to the four themes of the EYFSfor Early Year settings. Readers are guided through a series offactors, with accompanying statements at four levels, which enablepractitioners and their managers to review their own practice and settargets for improvement, based on evidence, which they collectthemselves.