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Following the launch last year of our 'Quality framework for childcare agencies introducing and supplying childcare staff', we have now published our self-evaluation toolkit.

The purpose of our self-evaluation tools is to support services to assess how well they are doing against the key questions from our quality framework and highlight areas where they need to support improved outcomes for children.

The toolkit includes:

· guidance on undertaking self-evaluation

· a worked example

· example questionnaire templates

· improvement plan template

· self-evaluation template

You can find the latest versions of our toolkits and frameworks on our website.

We will be in contact with providers of childcare agencies in the near future to invite you to attend a meeting to hear more about how the quality framework and self-evaluation toolkit can help support improvement.