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The Care Inspectorate website (www.careinspectorate.com) and care service list will be unavailable on Tuesday 17 September from 17:00 until 18:00 to allow for maintenance and security improvement work to be undertaken. Normal service will resume by 18:00. We apologise for any inconvenience this work will cause.
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Early learning and childcare statistics 2018
The Care Inspectorate has today published Early Learning and Childcare Statistics 2018, showing the availability and quality of early learning and childcare for children and families across Scotland.
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Updated quality framework for children and young people in need of care and protection
In July 2018, we launched our quality framework for children and young people in need of care and protection. Designed to lead to improvement in services, the framework is for community planning partnerships to support self-evaluation of services for children and young people in need of care and protection. We have now reviewed and updated the framework, and in particular made some minor changes to the six point scale definitions so that they align fully with the Care Inspectorate quality framework. You can download the updated quality framework here.
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A new guide to self-evaluation for care services
We have published a new guide for care services undertaking self-evaluation. Self-evaluation is central to continuous improvement. It enables care settings to reflect on what they are doing so they can get to know what they do well and identify what they need to do better.
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Update on the shared inspection framework
Today, we updated early learning and childcare services on the shared inspection framework with the following message.
Both the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland acknowledge the changes and pressures being experienced across the sector during this period of the early learning and childcare expansion and implementation of 1140 hours of high-quality early learning and childcare for all 3- and 4-year-olds, and eligible 2-year olds by August 2020.
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