The Early Education Show Lisa, Leanne and Liam

We’ve been away for a while - but we couldn’t let as big a year as 2022 pass without getting the gang back together.

It's the final episode of Exploring the NQS - a look at the whole thing, and the journey of exploring it element by element. Thanks for everyone who's listened in.

This week's episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series Exploring the NQS provides an overview of Quality Area 7: Leadership and service management.
From the Guide to the National Quality Standard: Quality Area 7 focuses on effective leadership and governance of the service to establish and maintain quality environments for children’s learning and development. Effective leaders establish shared values for the service that reflect the service context and professionalism and set clear direction for the service’s continuous improvement. Governance refers to the systems in place to support effective management and operation of the service, consistent with the service’s statement of philosophy.

This episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series Exploring the NQS discusses Element 7.2.3 of the National Quality Standard, "Development of professionals".
Element description: Educators, co-ordinators and staff members’ performance is regularly evaluated and individual plans are in place to support learning and development.

This episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series Exploring the NQS discusses Element 7.2.2 of the National Quality Standard, "Educational leadership".
Element description: The educational leader is supported and leads the development and implementation of the educational program and assessment and planning cycle.

This episode of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series Exploring the NQS discusses Element 7.2.1 of the National Quality Standard, "Continuous improvement".
Element description: There is an effective self-assessment and quality improvement process in place.