Guidance to help you assess and decide what the quality of any particular early childhood service is provided below.  

Checklists for looking at early childhood centres, home-based education service/agencies, and playgroups are provided in the links below. 

As well there is an article describing the personal characteristics of a good early childhood teacher, nanny, or family daycare caregiver. 

These checklists will help you to focus on what's really important and help you to cover the range of what is important before making your decision about the quality of a service and whether or not to use it or continue using it.

For further reading if you are looking for articles with helpful hints for choosing a quality service and how to lay a complaint click here to go to a second section on this in our website ...