Quality Improvement Principles (QIP)

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Quality Improvement Principles (QIP)

• Early Years Forum
• 5th October

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• A framework for Local Authorities and National
  organisations to improve quality outcomes for
  children and young people.

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• Quality Improvement Leaders from LA and national
  organisations came together with the National
  Childrens Bureau (NCB) with funding from DFES,
  to produce these QIP.

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• Quality Improvement is a journey towards
• higher quality in childcare through -
• Learning new skills
• Making changes in the way we do things
• Getting clearer about our values and beliefs
• Setting goals or targets for improvement
• Changing our behaviour and speech

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• Quality improvement happens through -
• Teamwork
• Commitment
• Leadership
• Self-examination of practice
• Being open to change
• Outside support and training
• It is the role of the Local Authority to provide
• the support and training.

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• Quality Assurance (QA) is a specific type of
• Quality Improvement. QA provides -
• Recognition that a setting has made real
• progress against agreed standards
• An independent review of the settings quality
• QA has been proved to be effective at raising
• Quality in settings.

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Quality Improvement and Ofsted

• Ofsted is now exploring how to link the
• Quality Improvement Principles, Quality
• Assurance Accreditation and the
• outcomes of inspections.
• The principles are to contribute to
• improving outcomes for children and
• young people.

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• The Principles lay out the best practice for
• Childcare Settings and Local Authority Quality
• Improvement Teams.
• Principle 1
• Guide and Support Settings to improve
• outcomes
• Principle 2
• Encourage settings to be inclusive and reduce
• inequalities
• Principle 3
• Strengthen values and principles in settings

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• Principle 4
• Promote effective practice and its delivery
• in settings
• Principle 5
• Increase the capacity of settings to improve
• Quality
• Principle 6
• Promote integrated working within and among
• settings

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• Principle 7
• Challenge and support key people in settings
• to lead quality improvement
• Principle 8
• Build on settings proven workforce
• development strategies
• Principle 9
• Support settings through self-evaluation and
• improvement processes

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• Principle 10
• Local and National organisations monitor
• quality improvements and communicate
• achievements.
• Principle 11
• Local Authorities and National organisations
• ensure quality improvement is achievable,
• continuous and sustainable.
• Principle 12
• Schemes operate fair, inclusive and transparent
• Accreditation processes.

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• Gateshead Council is developing the
• programme of training, support and action
• planning with our settings, to
• meet the 12 QIP.
• In 2008 we will begin to provide a more
• systematic approach to quality improvement
• with settings, leading to Quality Assurance
• Accreditation.