Childminder in Warwickshire

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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Monitoring for provision judged as satisfactory

An Ofsted inspector, Yvonne Johnson, monitored your provision on 03/02/2014 following your inspection where the provision was judged to be satisfactory.

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Outcome of monitoring

As a result of our inspection on 23/12/2013, we sent you a welfare requirements notice.

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Outcome of monitoring

In order to ensure that children are kept safe you were issued with a welfare requirements notice. This required you to: ensure signs of possible abuse and neglect are responded to appropriately; this specifically refers to notifying agencies with statutory safeguarding responsibilities about any concerns about children's safety or welfare without delay; ensure all staff are aware of Local Safeguarding Children Board guidance and procedures and are appropriately trained to identify signs of possible abuse and neglect at the earliest opportunity and to respond in a timely and appropriate way and put in place appropriate arrangements for the supervision of staff; this specifically refers to having appropriate arrangements for monitoring and reviewing staff performance, practice and training needs and to foster a culture of continuous.

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Outcome of monitoring

You were also issued with a notice of actions to improve, which required you to: ensure that all persons caring for children are fully competent in the areas of work they undertake; this specifically refers to ensuring that all staff understand their individual and collective roles and responsibilities and are aware of policies and procedures; ensure staff are deployed effectively to meet children's needs and that parents and/or carers are fully informed with regards to who is looking after their children at any particular time; ensure that a record is kept of every occasion where physical intervention is used and make sure parents are informed of any such occasion on the same day, or as soon as reasonably practicable; ensure you implement your behaviour management policy and that all staff are aware of it and able to effectively manage children’s behaviour in a positive and appropriate manner; obtain written permission from all parents before their children are taken on outings.

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Outcome of monitoring

At the monitoring visit on 03 February 2014 you were able to demonstrate that you have taken action to meet these requirements. This is because you have Our Reference EY400994

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Outcome of monitoring

demonstrated that you are now fully aware of the procedures to be followed without delay, if there are any safeguarding concerns about any child in your care in the future. You have sought advice from the local authority early years team and meet regularly with assistants and other childminders to ensure that communication about the care you provide to children is effectively shared and that assistants are familiar and able to report that they know how to safeguard children in your care in the event of a safeguarding concern. You are starting to develop a more formal supervision system to look at individual roles and responsibilities in the care of children, which will be evaluated at the next visit. The meetings, although in the early stages, have started to provide some information about expectations and information relating to children's needs. You inform parents of who is caring for their children daily and have arrangements in place to provide cover if required by

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Outcome of monitoring

assistants who know the children. Evidence of records for permissions is in place for all children in your care and you have a log to record any incidents where physical restraint may be required so that parents are informed of these issues and can work with you to manage behaviour effectively.

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Outcome of monitoring

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that the childminder has taken prompt and effective action to address the points for improvement.

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Next steps

The next step will be further monitoring.

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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

Lorna Fitzjohn National Director Our Reference EY400994

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Action Due date Closed date

WELFARE REQUIREMENTS NOTICE ISSUED AS PART OF INADEQUATE INSPECTION ensure signs of possible abuse and neglect are responded to appropriately; this specifically refers to notifying agencies with statutory safeguarding responsibilities about any concerns about children's safety or welfare without delay 31/01/2014

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Action Due date Closed date

WELFARE REQUIREMENTS NOTICE ISSUED AS PART OF INADEQUATE INSPECTION ensure all staff are aware of Local Safeguarding Children Board guidance and procedures and are appropriately trained to identify signs of possible abuse and neglect at the earliest opportunity and to respond in a timely and appropriate way 31/01/2014

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Action Due date Closed date

WELFARE REQUIREMENTS NOTICE ISSUED AS PART OF INADEQUATE INSPECTION put in place appropriate arrangements for the supervision of staff; this specifically refers to having appropriate arrangements for monitoring and reviewing staff performance, practice and training needs and to foster a culture of continuous improvement 31/01/2014

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