Policies, GUIDANCE & Risk Assessments

Realising The Ambition: Being Me

Realising the Ambition is our national guidance, used to support settings in Scotland in delivering high quality Early Learning & Childcare. It provides a vision for achieving excellence in practice and outlines the key principles needed to support young children's holistic well-being and development. 

In practice, this supports the team at Law to create rich, stimulating environments which promote independence, creativity and curiosity. It promotes relationship-based practice, where children are at the centre. 

Health & Social Care Standards 

In Scotland, we have this framework to ensure that people who receive care and support, have their rights respected and are treated with dignity, respect and compassion. 

How Good Is Our Early Learning & Childcare? (HGIOELC)

This is a self-evaluative tool designed to support early years settings in Scotland to reflect on and improve the quality of their setting. The framework encourages practitioners to assess and evaluate their practice across key areas such as learning, teaching & assessment, leadership, and outcomes for children. 

When inspected by HMiE, they use this document to assess how well the setting meets the national standards for quality and outcomes for children. 

Care Inspectorate: A Quality Framework for day care of children, childminding and school aged children.

Similar to HGIOELC, this tool is used to assess quality and provides a framework to ensure settings are meeting national standards and providing a high quality provision for children and families. It supports settings to reflect on their practices, identifying strengths, areas of improvement and ensures we meet regulatory standards. 

Care Inspectorate use this when carrying out their inspections to inform their evaluations and grades. 

Sun Protection Guidance

This provides key recommendations and practices to ensure the health and safety of children when they are exposed to the sun, especially whilst outdoor.