Complete the Care Inspectorate self-evaluation quality improvement framework and generate the 27-30 Month Health Visitor Report — for Scottish childminders only.
These two features are exclusive to Scottish childminder accounts. They replace or supplement England-specific features and are built around Scotland's regulatory requirements — the Care Inspectorate's Quality Improvement Framework and the NHS Health Visitor 27-30 Month Review.
Scotland-only features: These tools only appear in your KinderStart account if you registered as a Scottish childminder. If you're in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland, you won't see these screens.
The Care Inspectorate regulates childminding in Scotland and inspects against the Quality Improvement Framework (QIF). Rather than the EYFS framework used in England, Scottish inspectors use the QIF as their lens — assessing the quality of your care, the environment, and your professional practice.
KinderStart's Self-Evaluation tool gives you a Continuous Improvement Checklist aligned to those QIF standards. Working through it regularly means you're always inspection-ready, and it gives you a clear record of your self-assessment over time.
How to access:
Work through each item on the Continuous Improvement Checklist, honestly assessing your current practice. There are no right or wrong answers — this is a reflective tool to help you identify where you're strong and where you want to develop.
What the Care Inspectorate looks for: Inspectors assess quality across six themes — including the wellbeing of children, the learning environment, and the childminder's leadership and professional development. Regular self-evaluation shows inspectors that you reflect on your practice and actively work to improve it. This is exactly the kind of evidence that supports a strong inspection grade.
In Scotland, childminders play an active role in the child's 27-30 Month Developmental Review — a key milestone where the NHS Health Visitor meets with the family to assess the child's progress. As the child's key carer, you're well placed to contribute valuable observations.
KinderStart lets you generate a SHANARRI-based PDF report for each child, ready to share at the appointment.
What is SHANARRI?
SHANARRI is Scotland's wellbeing framework under Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). It stands for:
The report captures your observations across each of these eight indicators, giving the Health Visitor a rounded picture of how the child is thriving in your setting.
How to generate the report:
The PDF is then ready to download and share with the Health Visitor at the appointment.
This replaces the England 2-year progress check: If you've previously worked in England, you'll recognise this as covering the same developmental milestone — the check that happens around the child's second birthday. In Scotland, the same milestone is handled through the NHS Health Visitor appointment, and the SHANARRI framework replaces the EYFS progress check as the reporting lens. The outcome is the same: a clear, professional summary of the child's development to share with the family and their health team.
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