HMIe have produced research and inspection information in relation to the Early Years and Early Intervention Framework. The papers cover HMIE inspection and task activities since November 2007 until the end of April 2008.
Since the HMIE Early Education Quality Group (EEQG) meeting in February 2008 with Scottish Government policy officers (Positive Futures Division), we have seen the launch of the policy framework document, ' Early Years and Early Intervention'. The draft document was available for consultation until mid April 2008. The EEQG and pre-school Associate Assessors have continued to gather evidence of areas of best practice covering the four key themes and have now collated five case studies which focus on three of the four key themes:
The papers also outline areas further areas of good practice, identify some general issues in relation to the framework themes and offer some possible ways forwardas well as information on family learning within the Early Years Framework.