The Southwark Quality Kitemark was launched in 2004 to assess the quality of early years education and play services in the London Borough of Southwark. We designed and produced a Quality Assurance Workbook as a nine-section ring-binder packaged in a box to contain other resources using polypropylene material. Illustrations were commissioned for the divider cards to reflect on the Module themes. We have designed and produced two further editions of the QA scheme rebranded as Pathways to Quality.

Early years services in Southwark also use our STAR (Southwark Transition and Assessment Resource) pack to assess children’s development.

Included in this pack are:

• a ringbinder holding guidance notes and template assessment forms;
• assessment forms as pdf files on a CD for printing on office equipment;
• also on the CD, the forms as Word files for completing on screen;
• sets of printed dividers for organising children’s records;
• laminated sets of chain-looped assessment prompt cards.

The second edition of the STAR resource was published last year.