Quality Assurance In Early Years
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Explain and evaluate a range of quality assurance strategies and their purpose to working with young children 0-8 years, critically analysing management issues involved. Also make comparisons to provision in one other country. Quality assurance measurements are used by professionals in all sectors. However this assignment shall only be discussing quality assurance relating to early years. A comparison will be then made to Australia. The development of high quality childcare and early education services is given much priority and is central to Sure Start agenda and the ten year strategy for childcare It is important before we begin we can identify what Quality is? What Quality Assurance is? Parsons defines Quality as 'the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied need' (Parson 1994 p2). Quality Assurance "is a type of quality improvement, which provides provisions with recognition that they have achieved...

