Pennie Akehurst 
Monitoring and Evaluation in the Early Years 
Assessing the effectiveness of what we do

With Ofsted’s inspectors raising the bar for quality of teaching and learning in the early years, and the additional level of scrutiny on leadership and management, every practitioner must ensure they have in place a systematic monitoring and evaluation process to regularly assess the effectiveness of their provision. Managers need to be able to demonstrate that staff know why they do what they do, and that the services they provide makes a demonstrable difference to the children. This book shows how to construct a robust monitoring and evaluation framework and provides leaders and managers with an invaluable tool to observe, record and maintain the quality of their provision.