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Our Vision – the Guiding Principles of Inspection

1.1. To what extent do you support, or not support, the Scottish government’s overall proposed vision for the purpose and aim of inspection of ELC and school age childcare services?

Please select one item
Fully support
Partially support
Don’t support
Can you tell us why you think this?
I agree there must be change. Speaking to other practitioners within this profession, most felt neglected during the pandemic and before it begun. To raise the spirits of the workforce we need a national pay structure and a national designation title. WE are not childcare, most practitioners have worked hard to achieve at least one degree, many have more than one, we must be recognised as early years educators and not childcare!

1.2. Do you think the proposed vision is missing anything or contains something that you think does not reflect the purpose and aim of inspection of ELC and school age childcare services?

Please select one item
Yes
No
If yes, can you tell us what that is?
Why does care stop at 5? The care inspectorate should be inspecting throughout all of education and not just the early years. All children deserve the best.

1.3. To what extent do you support, or not support, the Scottish government’s draft guiding principles for inspection of ELC and school age childcare services?

Please select one item
Fully support
Partially support
Don’t support
Can you tell us why you think this?
see above

1.5. Do you think the draft guiding principles are missing anything?

Please select one item
Yes
No

The current inspection and scrutiny landscape

2.1. Some settings in Scotland currently receive inspections from both the Care Inspectorate and HMIE, visiting either separately or jointly. If you are an ELC and/or school age childcare setting (including childminders, practitioners, teachers and staff working within those settings), from which organisations has your setting or service previously received inspections? (please tick all that apply)

Please select all that apply
Only the Care Inspectorate (single agency inspection)
Only HMIE (single agency inspection)
Both the Care Inspectorate and HMIE (as separate visits)
Both the Care Inspectorate and HMIE (as a joint visit)
Neither/ not applicable

2.2. If you are an ELC setting providing funded ELC (or a childminder, practitioner, teacher or staff member working within that setting), when did your setting or service last receive an inspection from HMIE?

Please select one item
Within the last 2 years
2-5 years ago
5-10 years ago
More than 10 years ago
Never

2.3. If you are an ELC and/or school age childcare setting (or a childminder, practitioner, teacher or staff member working within that setting), when did your setting or service last receive an inspection from the Care Inspectorate?

Please select one item
Within the last 2 years
2-5 years ago
5-10 years ago
More than 10 years ago
Never

2.4. Discounting periods of disruption over the COVID-19 pandemic, what is your experience of the current inspection approach?

Please select one item
Mainly positive
Neither positive or negative
Mainly negative
I have not experienced this

2.7. Under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, HMIE and the Care Inspectorate are under a duty to ‘cooperate and coordinate’ their inspection activity. To what extent do you agree or disagree that the two inspectorate bodies cooperate with one another and coordinate inspection activity effectively?

Please select one item
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly agree
Don’t know

2.8. Do you think any change is required to the current duty to ‘cooperate and coordinate’ inspection activity to provide opportunities to improve cooperation and coordination between the inspectorate bodies in the short and medium term?

Please select one item
Yes, more could be done
No, more could not be done

2.10. Please provide any further comments on how you think the current inspection approach could be improved.

Please give us your views
I agree there must be change. Speaking to other practitioners within this profession, most felt neglected during the pandemic and before it begun. To raise the spirits of the workforce we need a national pay structure and a national designation title. WE are not childcare, most practitioners have worked hard to achieve at least one degree, many have more than one, we must be recognised as early years educators and not childcare!

A shared quality framework

3.1. Do you support the proposal to develop a shared quality framework between HMIE and the Care Inspectorate?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure

3.2. What do you consider are the benefits to implementation of a shared quality framework?

Please give us your views
both inspectorates have their own methods which can sometimes be confusing to the workforce and parents

3.3. What do you consider are the challenges to implementation of a shared quality framework?

Please give us your views
ensuring we value all professionals and the role they currently have.

3.4. Do you think that the development of a shared quality framework will meet the needs of the sector to simplify the inspection landscape and reduce the inspectorate burden?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure

3.5. Do you think that the shared framework should apply to all ELC services, including funded and unfunded nursery and childminder provision for 0-5 year olds, and to childcare provision for children of school age (over 5 years old)?

Please select one item
Yes
No
Unsure
Why do you think this?
I think this framework should be extended to all children in education!

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