Early Years Services which I specialise in
Quality Assurance / Early Years Audits
There’s always room for improvement, quality assurance from an early years specialist
Consultancy
Bespoke consultancy and support from an early years specialist
Leadership and performance management
Understand how inspectors evaluate the quality of leadership and management.
I can offer support with
- Developing confident Leadership
- A positive approach to teaching
- Transition and building emotional resilience
- Enthusiasm and the ability to engage children through effective learning
- Off the peg training packages
- Bespoke specialised training events
- Making the best use of additional funding – EYPP / two-year-old funding
- Tracking individual children and cohorts / groups of children, effective use of observations, assessment and planning
- Early Years Audits
- Inspection readiness
- Safeguarding and child protection
- Parental engagement
- Making a difference, evidencing impact on outcomes for children.
Nursery start ups
- Providing guidance, advice and support
- Delivering training
- Policys and procedures and self-evaluation
Leadership and performance management
I can help you
- Develop and improve strong leadership
- Make better use of performance management activities to drive up the quality of provision
- Improve self-evaluation leading to improvement
- Understand how inspectors evaluate the quality of leadership and management.
- Identify your leadership style
- Develop high performing teams
- Deal with difficult employees
- Use professional supervision to improve individual and team performance
Improve leadership and performance management through early years training
Quality Assurance
There’s always room for improvement
'I do not do ‘mocksteds’. You can never recreate an inspection, as so much depends on what happens on the day. However, I do carry out Quality Assurance visits and Early Years Audits.
I use Ofsted’s Early Years Inspection Handbook, the grade descriptors, and the early years foundation stage to make secure judgements based on evidence. During my visits, I identify the setting’s key strengths and areas for improvement. I provide advice and support to help make the necessary improvements. It is not helpful to expect, or want, nurseries to do anything in addition to prepare for inspections. However, I believe that’s leaders and practitioners can and should prepare for inspection by focusing on providing consistently good quality learning, play and care. I can help you to accurately evaluate the setting's strengths and weaknesses; and to develop action plans to address any shortfalls in practice.
Contact me for further details on how I can help
Tel: 07983 231584
Early Years Consultancy
Old ways won’t open new doors
With over 20 years experience as an Inspector, 8 of these as Her Majesty’s Inspector, I quickly and skilfully identify a settings strengths and areas for improvement.
I provide bespoke early years consultancy and support to you and your team to drive up the quality of teaching, learning and care; and to improve outcomes for children. I work with you to achieve your aims and ambitions; delivering success!
Website design service
Deborah Udakis Consultancy Ltd has teamed up with Vaikai Web Design to offer a bespoke service especially for the early years market. Whether you are a childminder, a single setting nursery or manage a multi-centre nursery, we have a package to enable you to have an online presence.