This section aims to help parents, carers and teachers to better understand the inspection of a pre-school centre or nursery class.

There are several sections below that you can read through.

Being ready for inspection
Briefing for parents: this page opens in a new window and aims to help parents to understand the inspection of a pre-school centre.
Briefing note for headteachers/heads of pre-school centres: this page opens in a new window and aims to help staff to understand the inspection process of a pre-school centre.
Self-evaluation exemplars: this page opens in a new window and aims to help headteachers in completing the self-evaluation form.
Inspection Advice Note: this advice notice opens up in a new document and sets out an adjustment in expectations, in line with national implementation expectations, for our evaluation of QI 5.1 (Curriculum) and QI 5.9 (Improvement through self-evaluation) for inspections which are announced from August 2011.
Safeguarding/child protection pro forma: this page opens in a new window and is used by establishments to record safeguarding issues.
Advice on issuing pre-inspection questionnaires for headteachers
Questionnaires used by inspectors during the inspection of pre-schools
Pre-school reports: this link takes you to the pre-school inspection reports page.
Improving Scottish Education: this link navigates you directly to the pre-school section of the Improving Scottish Education report.
The Child at the Centre: provides all sectors in pre-school education and the early stages of primary schooling with the tools to support self-evaluation and improvement.
Terms we use in inspection

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