Childminder in Durham

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, Ann Doubleday, carried out a monitoring visit of your provision on 15/10/2013. 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 03/09/2013, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of the visit

The welfare requirements notice required you to complete the following actions by 14 October 2013: ensure a daily record of children’s hours of attendance is kept and maintained accurately and foster a culture of continuous improvement, for example, by implementing rigorous and effective systems to monitor and evaluate practice, which includes feedback from parents and children, and use this to inform priorities and set challenging targets for improvement.

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Outcome of the visit

In addition to the welfare requirements notice you were also issued a notice to improve. The notice to improve set out an action that asked you to: obtain written parental permission for children to take part in outings

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Outcome of the visit

Additional actions were issued in a notice to improve, but the date for these to be completed have not yet been reached. These are: improve the use of observations of children's learning by using the information gathered to accurately identify the next steps in each child's development and use this information to ensure that future planning is precisely matched to children's individual needs so that they make good progress.

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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 satisfactory improvement overall.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Since the inspection the childminder has made satisfactory progress overall in addressing the weaknesses and meeting the welfare requirements. A record of children's attendance is now completed daily and written consent has been obtained from parents for taking children on outings, this contributes to keeping children safe.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

The childminder has started to evaluate her practice and identified that she needs to keep her written documentation up to date, however, she has not yet considered how to improve children's learning and development in her self evaluation. She has started to record more detailed observations of children's progress and identify next steps in their learning, but these are not closely linked to the three prime areas of development and therefore planning is not yet precisely matched to children's individual needs.

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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 satisfactory progress in addressing the points for improvement. The next visit will be a further monitoring visit.

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Next steps

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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