Nursery World - QuILT: Covering every aspect of quality

Judith Twani, independent early years consultant, trainer and early education improvement officer for Thurrock Council, explains how a modular quality assurance and improvement scheme is proving both versatile and enduring for a range of settings

Improvement in the quality of provision requires an improvement in practice, but the challenge lies in maintaining and continuing this. Changes in practice are best built upon strong convictions and principles and this is what has been developed using Quality Improvement in Learning and Teaching (QuILT), a modular quality assurance and improvement scheme for early years settings.

QuILT was developed ten years ago in Brighton and Hove and since then many settings from a number of local authorities have participated. It was originally inspired and influenced by the Effective Early Learning programme (Pascal and Bertram, 1996). Nine individual, termly modules are worked on over a possible period of three years which reflect the Pascal and Bertram ‘10 Dimensions of Quality’ (1996). The tenth dimension of quality, Monitoring and Evaluation, is addressed throughout the process.

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