A ‘Planning for Excellence’ process has been created, in partnership with Quality in Study Support (QiSS), to provide a rigorous approach to the accreditation of local CUs’ organisational structure and development. ‘Planning for Excellence’ is based on the national publication ‘Extending Learning Opportunities: A framework for self-evaluation in study support’.
The ‘Planning for Excellence’ process focuses on the organisational and structural quality assurance and includes policy and adherence to statutory requirements such as safeguarding children.
‘Planning for Excellence’ is distinctly different from ‘Planning for Learning’ in that it focuses on the organisation (and its systems and structures) that is the local Children’s University whilst ‘Planning for Learning’ concerns itself with what children learn and how good it is i.e. the quality assurance of the learning (and its processes and outcomes). In the overall quality assurance framework the two complement each other.