The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a high national benchmark for Australia’s Childcare Industry, with all early learning and outside of school care providers expected to adhere to a strict code of regulatory processes and procedures.The NQS includes 7 quality areas that are important outcomes for the healthy development and early education of children.Care providers are regularly assessed and rated by their regulatory authority against the NQS, and given a rating for each of the aforementioned quality areas, with an overall rating based on these results given as a summary of a childcares quality standard.