The must-have accessory for effective early years managers this spring is not a trendy trench coat, but a black and white, 200-page, A4 booklet - if a group of practitioners and researchers based in Essex has its way.
Unlike here today, gone next season fashion items, they believe that the Effective Leadership and Management Evaluation Scheme (Early Years) or ELMES for short, is set to stay and will prove to be a priceless evaluation tool.
They hope it will become a manager's first port of call when mulling over a personnel problem, identifying staff training needs, conducting a quality assurance exercise, running pre-inspection checks or reflecting on the myriad of tasks that make up their daily duties.
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