{"id":1315,"date":"2025-08-31T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:10:39","slug":"centre-improvement-plan-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/08\/31\/centre-improvement-plan-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre Improvement Plan 2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong style=\"color: #666666;font-size: 1.25rem\">What Influences our Priorities\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em><strong>National Improvement Framework &amp; Local Authority Service Plans\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-670\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2022\/08\/26115614\/Picture1-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2022\/08\/26115614\/Picture1-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2022\/08\/26115614\/Picture1.png 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Improvement Framework (NIF) and Improvement Plan sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement\u00a0activity that needs to be undertaken to help deliver those key priorities. This complements the ongoing implementation of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), and Developing the Young Workforce (DYW), which are the three supporting pillars of the Scottish education system.<\/p>\n<p>The local authority uses the NIF to inform a local plan which is updated annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How Good is our Early Learning and Childcare &amp; Care Inspectorate Quality Framework for daycare of children, childminding and school-aged children.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We use \u2018How good is our Early Learning and Childcare\u2019 and Care inspectorate indicators to evaluate our capacity for improvement in centre. Challenge questions support self evaluation and quality assurance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-672\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2022\/08\/26120152\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2024 \u2013 2025 Standards &amp; Quality Report<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The evaluation process of the previous year\u2019s Centre Improvement Plan often flags areas in which can be identified as an area of priority for the following or naturally lead us into an area for improvement focus.\u00a0 Our accomplishments from this year are published in our\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/08\/31175248\/CPPS-EYC-Standards-and-Quality-Report-2024.25-DRAFT.docx\">CPPS EYC Standards and Quality Report 2024\/25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read this years improvement plan in full click on the link below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/public\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/uploads\/sites\/3841\/2025\/08\/31171141\/Colquhoun-Park-EYC-CIP-25-26-Working-Document.docx\">Colquhoun Park EYC CIP 25-26<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Influences our Priorities\u00a0 National Improvement Framework &amp; Local Authority Service Plans\u00a0 The National Improvement Framework (NIF) and Improvement Plan sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement\u00a0activity that needs to be undertaken to help deliver those key priorities. This complements the ongoing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2025\/08\/31\/centre-improvement-plan-2025-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Centre Improvement Plan 2025\/26&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,156,66],"tags":[254,229,382],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","category-getting-it-right-for-every-child","category-development","tag-centre-improvement-plan","tag-evaluating-practice","tag-standards-and-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}