Review tools to use during a hospital-based review with ERO
ERO uses a range of tools and frameworks to help services understand quality practice, meet regulatory requirements, and support ongoing improvement. These resources provide a shared understanding of what good practice looks like, help services reflect on how they are supporting children’s learning, wellbeing and safety, and guide ERO’s review process during a hospital based review.
Whether you are preparing for a review, reflecting on your service’s strengths, or planning your next improvement priorities, the information below explains the key tools ERO and services use to understand what is working well, where improvement may be needed, and how positive outcomes for children and whānau can be strengthened.
You do not need to use every tool separately. Together, they help answer three simple questions: What is happening? How do we know? What should happen next?
Ngā Ara Whai Hua
Ngā Ara Whai Hua one pager
Ngā Ara Whai Hua is ERO’s quality framework for evaluation and improvement in early childhood services. It connects accountability and improvement and recognises the value of both internal and external evaluation.
Te Ara Poutama indicators of quality
Te Ara Poutama Indicators of quality for early childhood education: what matters most
Te Ara Poutama describes the conditions that contribute to quality early childhood education and the learning outcomes that matter for children. ERO uses the indicators when evaluating what is happening for children and how the service’s learning and organisational conditions support them.
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators poster
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators poster
Ngā Rāpupuku Indicators describe the teaching, leadership and organisational practices that research shows are most important for helping children experience high-quality learning, wellbeing and positive outcomes
ECE Improvement Framework
Improvement Framework (teacher-led services)
The ECE Improvement Framework supports services and ERO to understand where practice sits on an improvement journey. It can help a service identify strengths, choose practical improvement priorities and monitor progress.
ECE sector resources
Wat matters most | parent and whānau resource
We’ve written this guide to help parents and whānau understand what matters most for their child and their learning in an early childhood service.
Early childhood is an important time in children’s life when they learn and develop faster than at any other time. This guide helps parents and whānau to know what they can expect from an early childhood service and what questions they might ask about the quality of the service.
This is a guide to quality improvement planning for early childhood services. It supports services to plan for improvement based on the findings from internal and external evaluation and includes some examples.