Childminder in Islington

Store Street Manchester M1 2WD Telephone: 0300 123 1231 Fax: 0300 123 3159 Minicom: 0161 618 8524 Email: enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk Web: www.ofsted.gov.uk

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Outcome of monitoring visit for provision judged as inadequate

An Ofsted inspector, Lorraine Meldrum Sunter, carried out a monitoring visit of your provision on 27/08/2013. This visit follows on from your inspection where the provision was judged to be inadequate.

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Outcome of the visit

As a result of our inspection on 08/04/2013, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of the visit

The notice required you to ensure people, whose suitability has not been checked, including through the Disclosing and Barring Service, do not have unsupervised contact with children; that any assistant who might be in sole charge of the children for any period of time, holds a current paediatric first aid certificate; obtain permission from parents and/or carers to leave children with an assistant, including for very short periods of time; ensure children are not left in the sole care of childminders' assistants for more than 2 hours at most in a single day; ensure that the premises and equipment are fit for purpose and are organised in a way that meets the needs of children, with particular regard to enabling children to have privacy during nappy changes and toileting. In addition to the welfare requirements notice you were issued several actions to improve requiring you to ensure suitable systems are in place to reflect on the

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Outcome of the visit

different ways that children learn and reflect these in the practice within the educational programme to provide children with appropriate challenges that meets their needs, aptitudes and interests (Learning and Development); ensure that any person having unsupervised contact with children is suitable to be in regular contact with children and has completed suitability checks for the Disclosure and Barring Service through Ofsted in respect of that person (voluntary part of the Childcare Register); implement effective systems to ensure that any person caring for children is suitable to work with children, which must include obtaining being vetted by the Disclosure and Barring Service through Ofsted (compulsory part of the Childcare Register); implement effective systems to ensure that any person caring for children is suitable to work with children, which must include obtaining being vetted by the Disclosure and Barring Service through Ofsted (voluntary part of the Childcare

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Outcome of the visit

Register); maintain records of the name, home address and telephone number of every person living or working on the premises on which childcare is provided (compulsory part of the Childcare Register); maintain records of the name, home address and telephone number of every person living or working on the premises on which childcare is provided (voluntary part of the Childcare Register); inform Ofsted of the name, date of birth, address and telephone number of any person aged 16 or over working or living on the premises (voluntary part of the Childcare Register); inform Ofsted of the name, date of birth, address and telephone number of any person aged 16 or over working or living on the premises (compulsory part of the Childcare Register); ensure that any person having unsupervised contact with children is suitable to be in regular contact with children and has completed suitability checks for the Disclosure and Barring Service through Ofsted in respect of

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Outcome of the visit

that person (compulsory part of the Childcare Register)

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Outcome of the visit

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that at this time you are making good improvement overall.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

A monitoring visit was undertaken on 07 June 2013. A further monitoring visit was undertaken on 27 August 2013 to establish what further improvements had been made and to assess how all have been sustained. It was found that overall progress made since the last inspection was good.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

The childminder has strengthened her practice by accessing and using a new system for DBS checks. Individual files are kept for each assistant with their personal details and relevant certificates. Children's folders are well organised with their details and parental consent forms are in place. The childminder uses children's interests to plan for the next steps in their development, creatively encouraging their learning through topics they enjoy. She has also attended some local EYFS training to support her in meeting children's individual needs.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

The childminder has sustained all improvements made since the last inspection, the next visit will be a full inspection.

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Next steps

Having considered all the evidence the inspector is of the opinion that at this time:

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Next steps

 The childminder has made good improvement. The next visit will be a full inspection. I hope that you have found the visit helpful in promoting improvement in your childminding service. If you have any further queries please contact us on the number at the top of this letter.

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Next steps

Susan Gregory HMI National Director, Inspection Delivery

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