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More than 100 guests packed Hereford Town Hall on November 7th to witness 16 Early Years and Childcare providers being presented with the Bronze Award of the Growing Together Quality Assurance Scheme.
The 16 childcare providers, representing day nurseries, pre-schools, playgroups, childminding, crèches and out of school care, were presented with their certificates by Cllr Don Rule MBE, Cabinet Member for Education and member of the Early Years Development & Childcare Partnership.
The evening celebrated the quality of childcare provision throughout Herefordshire.
Maria Jones, Quality Assurance Co-ordinator said: “ I am delighted to see so many of our childcare providers here celebrating their success.
“This has been very much a learning curve for us all, as it was the first time Herefordshire Council has introduced Quality Assurance into Early Years Education and Childcare.
“The EYDCP has always been proud of the quality of care provided in Herefordshire, and now, through Quality Assurance Schemes such as Growing Together and Children Come First, we are able to endorse that quality formally.”
The childcare providers who have so far received their Bronze Award of the Growing Together Quality Assurance Scheme are: abc Nursery, Bargates Children’s Centre, The Farm Creche, Fourways Children’s Centre, Gateway Nursery, Highmore Hedgehogs, Hunderton Neighbourhood Nursery, Jumpstart, Little Acorns, Margaret MacLeod, Childminder, Merry-Go-Round Pre-school, Paddywacks, Rainbow Nursery, (sea) URCHINS tots 2 teens, Step by Step Day Nursery, The Townsend Nursery.
The childminders who have received approval to the Sure Start and North Herefordshire Children Come First Childminding Network are: Sandra Bufton, Elinor Fielder, Sharon Weston, Anita LaMonica, Sue Gopsill and Wendy Brick.
EYDCP celebrates quality assurance awards
More than 100 guests packed Hereford Town Hall on November 7th to witness 16 Early Years and Childcare providers being presented with the Bronze Award of the Growing Together Quality Assurance Scheme.
The 16 childcare providers, representing day nurseries, pre-schools, playgroups, childminding, crèches and out of school care, were presented with their certificates by Cllr Don Rule MBE, Cabinet Member for Education and member of the Early Years Development & Childcare Partnership.
The evening celebrated the quality of childcare provision throughout Herefordshire.
Maria Jones, Quality Assurance Co-ordinator said: “ I am delighted to see so many of our childcare providers here celebrating their success.
“This has been very much a learning curve for us all, as it was the first time Herefordshire Council has introduced Quality Assurance into Early Years Education and Childcare.
“The EYDCP has always been proud of the quality of care provided in Herefordshire, and now, through Quality Assurance Schemes such as Growing Together and Children Come First, we are able to endorse that quality formally.”
The childcare providers who have so far received their Bronze Award of the Growing Together Quality Assurance Scheme are: abc Nursery, Bargates Children’s Centre, The Farm Creche, Fourways Children’s Centre, Gateway Nursery, Highmore Hedgehogs, Hunderton Neighbourhood Nursery, Jumpstart, Little Acorns, Margaret MacLeod, Childminder, Merry-Go-Round Pre-school, Paddywacks, Rainbow Nursery, (sea) URCHINS tots 2 teens, Step by Step Day Nursery, The Townsend Nursery.
The childminders who have received approval to the Sure Start and North Herefordshire Children Come First Childminding Network are: Sandra Bufton, Elinor Fielder, Sharon Weston, Anita LaMonica, Sue Gopsill and Wendy Brick.