The Early Years Quality and Inspection Readiness Audit

You cannot see which of these is true in your school. That is not a failing. It is the nature of the job.

Your Early Years lead says it is fine. They may be right. But they are grading their own work, against a standard no one has written down. 

The rooms look busy and happy. Busy is not the same as progress. A room can look wonderful and evidence almost nothing. 

You are not an Early Years specialist. Nor should you be. You cannot audit a phase you were never trained to teach. 

So you find out last. From an inspector, or from a parent who moves their child.

Seven areas an inspector judges, grouped into the three lenses your board understands.

1. Safe and well

Safeguarding. Children's welfare and wellbeing.

2. Learning that shows

Curriculum and teaching. Achievement. Behaviour, attitudes and involvement. This is where play becomes evidence.

3. Led and inclusive

Leadership and self-evaluation. Inclusion. The area inspectors now weigh most heavily.

Mapped to the BSO standards, ISI and the EYFS.

What lands on your desk

Three things, and you can act on all of them the week you get them.

The picture.

A board-ready report. Strengths, risks, and a clear readiness rating against the seven areas.

The plan.

A prioritised roadmap. The quick wins first, then the bigger moves, in the order to do them.

The proof.

A one page summary for your governors, plus a live debrief and a scorecard your team reuses.

You leave with the picture and the plan, in language your board already speaks.

From US$6,000.

A fixed fee for the audit, agreed at the discovery call. Anything after is a separate decision.

About four weeks.

From discovery call to live debrief. Three touch points on your calendar.

One short call.

Twenty minutes to see whether this fits your school this year.