BIEA ELQ Accreditation

ELQ Accreditation:Benefits

• Offers external recognition of the impact of leaders and practitioners in improving the quality of education for young children and the standards they achieve. 

• Assists your nursery, school or facility in continuing to improve the quality of service offered to young children and their families. 

• Provides a holistic evidence base for continuous improvement through multidimensional accreditation that addresses both structural characteristics, such as statutory adult-child ratios and practitioner qualifications, as well as process quality factors, such as pedagogical approach. 

• Helps leaders and practitioners identify strengths and prioritise key areas for development through a guided process of rigorous self-evaluation. 

• Supports identifying the impact of your practice via regular self-review and audit. 

ELQ Accreditation :  What is it.

Early Years League Quality (ELQ),is a set of quality standard system to measure the implementation of EYFS in early education institutions of overseas countries and regions in the UK based on the experience summary of early education institutions implementing EYFS in the world, with many well-known kindergartens and institutions in UK and overseas countries and regions (mainly China, Middle East countries, etc.) as the pilot.

ELQ Accreditation : Standards

The BIEA ELQ Standards for Quality Early Learning Provisions are comprised of Standards, Domains and Elements. 


The Standards are research-based, comprehensive quality statements that describe conditions that are necessary for early years provisions to achieve organisational effectiveness and to ensure that they are delivering the EYFS to British standards. 


The Elements are operational definitions or descriptions of exemplary practices and processes that together provide a comprehensive picture of each Standard. The Elements will be scored individually through a set of Criteria. These Criteria contain rich, detailed descriptors of what each Element looks like in practice. The performance of each early years provision will be rated on each Criteria as “Met” or “Not Met” based on evidence.


The process of reflection and self-evaluation is integral to the ELQ and is key to the accreditation process. As leaders and practitioners, you will gather evidence of your provision and practice, engage in robust self-evaluation, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and set and implement targeted actions to support further improvement. 

Self-evaluation and evidence gathering gives your leaders and practitioners the confidence to explain the cycle of review and continuous improvement. 

The process of accreditation includes: 

• Apply for ELQ accreditation 

• An initial visit from an EYFS expert 

• Access to an online system 

• Use of the self assessment audit tool 

• Access to a mentor 

• A library of best practice examples 

• A final accreditation assessment visit