Order an early years toolkit

If you're an early years or childcare provider, you can buy one of our toolkits to help you evaluate your early years or childcare setting.

What are toolkits?

Our toolkits are designed to help you identify your strengths and areas for development, where you work as an early years or childcare provider. They can be used individually or as a set, and you can work at your own pace, in a way that suits your setting. You also get external recognition when you use our simple system to record the benefits for children and families of planned developments. Share this impact with us, and we'll send you a certificate to acknowledge your team’s hard work.

Order a toolkit

Find out which toolkit is best for you by opening up any of the following headings. You can see how much each one costs and order a toolkit online. Alternatively, if you want to place a bulk order, email us for a quote at early_years@bathnes.gov.uk

QUEST

QUEST is a self-evaluation toolkit for all early years and childcare providers, including:

• Current providers looking to self-evaluate more flexibly
• New providers looking for support to develop good provision from scratch
• Providers looking for a self-evaluation tool linked to OFSTED’s inspection framework (evaluation schedule)

It has been updated in line with the latest EYFS (2025) and we have added 4 new sections to cover the specific areas of learning, literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive art and design.

What QUEST provides:

QUEST provides a self-evaluation framework that:

• supports deep level reflection with the whole team
• has some indicators of inspirational practice
• can be worked through in any order, at your own pace
• enables you to document your setting's strengths and areas for development
• builds practitioner confidence to articulate what you do well and what you wish to develop
• provides a structure for effective staff meetings

Costs

QUEST costs £10 per setting within B&NES, and £20 per setting outside of B&NES.

Order a downloadable version

To order a downloadable version please contact early_years@bathnes.gov.uk

Toddler Quality

Our Toddler Quality toolkit is a physical book for early years and childcare providers offering funded childcare for two year olds. It aims to help you to reflect on your current practice using a range of activities and audit tools. The toolkit also enables you to evaluate how you meet the specific needs of two year olds; keeping them at the centre of everything you do ('what is it like for me here?').

This toolkit is for any of the following:

• New providers offering places for funded two year olds
• Current providers looking for a new tool to reflect on your provision for two year olds
• Providers considering offering places for two years olds

Our Toddler Quality toolkit has many exciting features to support you to evaluate and improve your provision for two year olds. These include:

• Confidence audits so you can see, at a glance, your strengths, show the distance travelled and evidence the impact of changes you have made.
• Activities that provide structure for staff meetings, support professional dialogue and help you to gather information and evidence.
• Resources to assist you to evaluate individual areas of your provision.
• Top tips to give you snap shots of information and to promote discussion.

Our Toddler Quality toolkit complements our popular and effective Baby Quality toolkit. Both are a must to help you provide the best possible provision for under three year olds.

Order a toolkit

Our Toddler Quality toolkit costs £25 (plus £3.95 P&P) and you can order it online.

Baby Quality

Our Baby Quality toolkit is a physical book for early years and childcare providers wanting to develop what they provide to under two year olds.

The toolkit will support you to:

• Evaluate your baby provision
• Identify what is going well and what could be improved
• Improve identified areas through a range of activities and resources
• Work with parents and carers, to support the development of babies (including transitions)

Our toolkit will help you to support babies and young children so they receive the highest quality experiences.

Our Baby Quality toolkit has many exciting features to support you to evaluate and improve your provision for babies. These include:

• Audits and an overview grid so you can see, at a glance, the strengths and areas to develop in your setting.
• Activities that provide structure for staff meetings and individual reflection.
• Resources to support you to evaluate individual areas of your provision.
• Top tips to support your thinking and to give you snap shots of information to promote discussion.

Our Baby Quality toolkit complements our popular and effective Toddler Quality toolkit. Both are a must to help you provide the best possible provision for under three year olds.

Order a toolkit

Our Baby Quality toolkit costs £25 (plus £3.95 P&P) and you can order it online.