High-Quality Spaces: A Core Provision is an inspiring, insightful, and informative document designed to provide guidance surrounding the creation of Early Years spaces that nurture children’s learning, wellbeing and development.
The aim of Core Provision is to set clear expectations regarding what high-quality provision should look like, offering practical advice for designing and organising spaces and resources. This helps to ensure that all practitioners work towards the same standards.
October 2025 saw the launch of the most significant review and update of Fife’s Early Years Core Provision since 2014. The new document aims to provide readers with greater knowledge and deeper understanding of the purpose and intended impact of each Core Provision area, supporting readers to truly value the role that ELC can play in a child’s life by enabling them to grow, thrive, and explore their potential.
Given that self-evaluation of Core Provision areas is crucial to maintaining and developing a high-quality environment, an accompanying audit tool has been created to support settings to identify where they are, consider development needs, and plan for next steps.
High-Quality Spaces: A Core Provision is a large document containing a considerable number of images. For this reason, it was developed primarily as a digital resource. Whilst it is possible to print, in order to minimise printing costs, PDFs of each individual provision area are available below. This enables settings to print specific sections of the document that correspond to their particular area of focus.
Please note that the sections are presented in a different sequence within the document. In this instance, the individual Core Provision sections have been organised alphabetically for convenience.
