Stephanie Brodie

1. The childminder should put in place formal quality assurance systems and create an improvement plan for the year. This should be regularly reviewed and used to inform planning and development of the service. This is to enable children to benefit from a service that is focused on improvement and committed to providing high quality care. To further improve outcomes for children, the childminder should also ensure they use relevant best practice documents and tools to inform and improve their practice. Using these to build current knowledge; consider what the service does well and what could be better. Useful documents and websites can be found at http://hub.careinspectorate.com/. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I use a service and organisation that are well led and managed' (HSCS 4.23); and 'I benefit from a culture of contin1. To ensure that children remain safe, the childminder should gain written permission to allow children to walk from school to the childminder's home unsupervised. they should also have a written risk assessment to support this. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'My care and support meets my needs and is right for me' (HSCS 1.19).