Jesters Childcare Ltd

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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Jesters Childcare Ltd Stanhope Primary School, Keyworth Road Gedling NOTTINGHAM NG4 4JD Our Reference EY407637

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Outcome of monitoring visit for provision judged as inadequate

An Ofsted inspector, Diane Stone, carried out a monitoring visit of your provision on 12/12/2013. 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 25/07/2013, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of the visit

The notices required you to: ensure a daily record of the names of the children being cared for on the premises and their hours of attendance is maintained.

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Outcome of the visit

You were also issued with a notice of actions to improve that required you to: observe and assess each child's starting points across all areas of learning and development in relation to their age and stage of development and use this information to accurately identify their needs and plan for the next steps in their learning; ensure that at least half of the staff team hold at least a full and relevant level 2 qualification; ensure there is a named Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator in the setting; keep a daily record of the names of the children looked after on the premises and their hours of attendance (compulsory part of the Childcare Register); keep a daily record of the names of the children looked after on the premises and their hours of attendance (voluntary part of the Childcare Register); ensure there is a named deputy who, is capable and qualified to take charge in the manager's absence.

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Outcome of the visit

From evidence gathered at the visit on the 23 September 2013 the inspector concluded that the welfare requirement notice had been met. Although some progress had been made in meeting the notice of actions to improve, insufficient progress had been made in all areas, particular with regard to learning and development requirements. At the monitoring visit on 12 December 2013 the inspector the inspector concluded that the welfare requirement notice and all notice of actions to improve had been met. However, further improvement to planning and assessment is needed to ensure outcomes for children are good.

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Outcome of the visit

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that at this time the setting is making satisfactory improvement overall.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

Through documentation used at the setting and through discussion and observation at the monitoring visit the inspector concludes that the setting has demonstrated satisfactory progress in making improvements in the areas of weakness identified in the welfare requirement notice and notice of actions to improve.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

The setting has continued to access support from the local authority and from other professionals from the school in which the setting is situated. Staff are working with other professionals in order to continue to develop and improve the way in which they monitor and assess children’s learning and development. The staff team has worked hard to develop the planning and assessment of children’s learning. All files now have appropriate documentation in them to enable the setting to track children’s individual progress. The setting is using a new tracking system, which helps staff to identify any children who are not meeting expected levels. This enables staff to put early inventions in place to ensure children’s individual learning needs are met. The staff team need to continue to evaluate the system to ensure it helps them identify where children may be at risk of not meeting expected levels in their development.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

This will ensure that outcomes for children are good.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

A daily record of the names of the children being cared for on the premises and their hours of attendance has been maintained, new processes have been put in place by the staff team to ensure they check that parents have signed their children in and out of the setting. New staff have been appointed to ensure the qualifications requirements continue to be met at all times. The setting has a robust recruitment and vetting procedure in place and uncleared staff are not left unsupervised with children.

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Overall effectiveness of the improvement and outcomes for children

The next visit will be a monitoring visit to consider if the changes made to planning and assessment of children’s learning has been maintained. In addition, that the system continues to enable staff to identify areas of learning where children may need additional support and if using the system has ensured the early interventions they have put in place have been robust and meet children’s 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 setting 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 setting. 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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