Leadership development resources for children's centre staff

The requirement to assess your centre and your provision is increasing, along with changes in family outcomes. Self-evaluation is a method which allows you to learn from experience by encouraging reflection on the success and impact of the services you currently offer.

Is self-evaluation and reflection the best way to discover what will work well in the future?

The early years leadership development resource is a set of tools that will encourage learning and development within your organisation through self-evaluation. Designed with the complexities of children’s centres in mind this resource will stimulate discussion and enhance your leadership skills. This pack will help you to:

study the quality of leadership practices throughout the centre cluster
draw up development plans, with input from all members of staff
discover new ways of gathering information from families who can feed back on the services your centre provides
develop your own support networks with other children’s centres and individuals to facilitate sharing best practice and problem solving techniques

All staff can participate in this set of tools, allowing a comprehensive discussion of leadership and management by the whole team.

Making this training pack work for you - how you can use this resource to your advantage and share your outcomes.
Leadership rating scale - assess the quality of leadership and management within your children’s centre. To be completed by the senior leadership team and the children's centre leader.
Examples and notes for clarification - support for when you are completing the leadership rating scale, providing further information and understanding around each of the five statements.

Leadership resource pack

Team resource pack