Blooming Babies Day Nursery Limited

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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Blooming Babies Day Nursery Limited St. Cleres School Butts Lane STANFORD-LE-HOPE Essex SS17 0NW Our Reference EY423109

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Monitoring for provision judged as inadequate

An Ofsted inspector, Lynn Hughes, monitored your provision on 01/04/2014 following your inspection where the provision was judged to be inadequate.

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Outcome of monitoring

As a result of our inspection on 10/12/2013, we sent you a notice to improve. The actions you were set are included at the end of this letter.

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Outcome of monitoring

During the monitoring visit the inspector discussed with you the steps you have taken to address the actions raised in the notice to improve. She observed activities in the nursery and in the nursery garden and had a discussion with the manager, practitioners and children. The inspector also spoke to yourself and to two representatives from the local authority. She looked at documentation relating to the changes you have made since your last inspection. The inspector also looked at records to evidence the suitability of practitioners, she looked at children's personal details, information about planning and assessment, accident and medication records, the daily attendance register, proof of qualifications, including first aid and written policies.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that you have developed an action plan to address the issues raised at your last inspection and have implemented more effective systems for monitoring and reviewing the provision. This has enabled you to identify how to address the areas for improvement and to plan for ongoing improvements.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that you have reviewed and reflected upon the way in which you plan for children's learning, especially for the younger children attending the nursery. You have worked effectively with representatives from the local authority to implement a more rigorous system for observing children's progress and planning challenging activities for each child. As part of this review, you have also considered Our Reference EY423109

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Outcome of monitoring

your environment and implemented a number of changes to the organisation of both the baby room and the older children's room. This has resulted in children being able to more effectively guide their own learning and make choices over their play. You now provide children with greater opportunities to express themselves creatively through a range of resources, activities and materials. You are currently developing the outdoor area, to reflect the changes indoors. You have provided more role play equipment outdoors and ensure that children have opportunities to explore all seven areas of learning. At present you are not making full use of the outdoor area, for example, children are not always able to choose when to play outdoors, however, plans to fully implement this are in hand.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that you have implemented systems to enable you to more effectively involve parents in their children's learning. You have reviewed the 'all about me' booklets you use and are now offering these more consistently across all age groups within the nursery. Parents are provided with greater opportunities to share their views on their children's learning as key persons now provide more opportunities for verbal discussions as well as open events to encourage parents to visit the setting and discuss their children's ongoing development. Systems for ensuring that parents are always kept well-informed of any accidents or injuries to a child have been tightened. You now have a clear log book in which you record all telephone calls to parents and practitioners have been reminded of the nursery's procedures for dealing with accidents.

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Outcome of monitoring

During the monitoring visit, the inspector observed practitioners demonstrating their understanding of their roles and responsibilities and taking control of everyday routines. For example, while the inspector was holding a meeting with the manager and yourself, practitioners followed the routine and organised the key person groups and end of session story time. The manager has improved her systems for organising the practitioner rota and now keeps clear spreadsheets showing which children are due in each day and how many practitioners are required to meet the correct adult to child ratio. A re-organisation of practitioners working with each age group has resulted in more effective deployment of practitioners and a sharper focus of on the experience and skill of the practitioners supervising children.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that children are more effectively protected from harm, because you have put in place safeguarding training for all practitioners, to ensure that they have an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding issues and that they know what to do if they have a concern about a child. This training was delivered in-house, by a representative of the local authority development team. You are continuing to review practitioner's safeguarding knowledge through regular supervision and appraisal meetings.

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Outcome of monitoring

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that the setting has taken prompt and effective action to address the points for improvement. Our Reference EY423109

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Next steps

The next step will be a full inspection.

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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

Nick Hudson National Director, Early Education Our Reference EY423109

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Action Due date Closed date

implement effective planning and assessment for all children aged under two years to enable staff to understand children's level of achievement, interests and learning styles in order to effectively plan challenging learning experiences for each child reflecting those observations, so that they make good progress 12/02/2014 01/04/2014

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plan a challenging and enjoyable play and learning experiences both inside and outside and make sure a good range of creative activities form part of the core daily activities so that each child's interests are captured and sustained enabling children to build on existing knowledge and skills 12/02/2014 01/04/2014

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make sure parents are informed of more serious injuries to children as involve parents in their children's learning by improving the exchange of information on entry and during the placement and encouraging them to share their views and enhance children's learning and development at home 12/02/2014 01/04/2014

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make sure parents are informed of more serious injuries to children as soon as reasonable practicable to ensure children's individual needs continue to be met 16/12/2013 01/04/2014

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make sure that all staff understand their roles and responsibilities and that they are clear about procedures to follow in the everyday running of the nursery 16/12/2013 01/04/2014

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make sure children are effectively supervised at all times and the deployment of staff focusses on the experience and skill of the staff supervising children 16/12/2013 01/04/2014

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Action Due date Closed date

put in place safeguarding training for all staff to ensure that they have an up-to- date knowledge of safeguarding issues and that they know what to do if they 16/12/2013 01/04/2014 Our Reference EY423109

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