Childminder in Bury

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 inadequate

An Ofsted inspector, Patricia Graham, monitored your provision on 28/04/2015 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 02/03/2015, we sent you a welfare requirements notice. If you were set actions at the inspection, or as a result of our subsequent monitoring or investigations, these are included at the end of this letter.

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Outcome of monitoring

This visit was the first monitoring visit since your childminding provision was judged ‘inadequate with enforcement’ following the inspection of 2 March 2015.

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Outcome of monitoring

During the visit, the inspector met with you and a representative of the local authority’s quality and outcomes team, to discuss the action that you have taken since your last inspection. A range of documentation was reviewed, including your improvement plan, and the inspector discussed the strategies that you have in place to promote children’s learning and development.

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Outcome of monitoring

Since your inspection, you have worked with the quality and outcomes team and together you have developed an improvement plan, which stipulates areas that require improvement identified at your recent inspection. The timescales are realistic and achievable, and as a result, you have already addressed some of these areas. You have improved your knowledge of safeguarding procedures, including the action to take in the event of an allegation being made against yourself or a family member. You have also secured further training to ensure that you have up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding issues. Suitable procedures are now in place to promote the good health of children because you ensure freshly laundered bedding is available for children who sleep or rest during the day. You have also improved the procedures for administering medication, and you are acutely aware that medication can only be administered with parents’ written consent.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that although you have improved the procedures for recording accidents, you could not provide evidence that you hold a valid paediatric first-aid certificate. As a result, children’s safety and well-being is not assured in the event of an accident. Nevertheless, you have booked a place on a first-aid training course that is approved by the local authority.

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Outcome of monitoring

The inspector found that most of the improvements made have focused predominantly on the safeguarding and welfare requirements. However, you have placed less emphasis on meeting the learning and development requirements. You accept these are areas that still require improvement, and you have also identified key aspects that you would like to focus on, such as planning activities for younger children. You have arranged training sessions with the quality and outcomes team in June and July 2015. These sessions have been targeted to cover planning, assessment and teaching to enhance outcomes for children. As these sessions have not yet taken place, it is not possible to assess their impact on outcomes for children. Therefore we shall continue to monitor the quality of learning and development.

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Outcome of monitoring

Since your inspection, you have re-established links with the local children’s centre and joined online forums to seek ideas and support to help you in your quest to promote children’s learning and development. You have also encouraged parents to share information from their child’s progress check with their health visitor in order to support integrated working. However, much more is needed to ensure that the quality of teaching and educational programme meets the individual learning needs of all the children that attend.

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Outcome of monitoring

Having considered all the available evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that you have not taken prompt and effective action to address all the points for improvement.

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Outcome of monitoring

Having considered all the evidence, the inspector is of the opinion that the childminder has not 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

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

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Action Due date Closed date

provide evidence that a paediatric first- aid course that is relevant for workers caring for young children has been completed. 27/03/2015

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Action Due date Closed date

promote the good health of children, in this instance by ensuring children rest or sleep on clean bedding 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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ensure written parental consent is obtained before medication is administrated and keep a written record each time a medicine is administered to a child 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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ensure that an appropriate first-aid qualification is held (voluntary part of the Childcare Register). 27/03/2015

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keep and implement a written record of policies and procedures to be followed for the protection of children, intended to safeguard the children being cared for from abuse or neglect (compulsory part of the Childcare Register) 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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Action Due date Closed date

ensure that an appropriate first-aid qualification is held (compulsory part of the Childcare Register) 27/03/2015

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keep and implement a written record of policies and procedures to be followed for the protection of children, intended to safeguard the children being cared for from abuse or neglect (voluntary part of the Childcare Register) 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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ensure each area of learning and development is implemented through planned, purposeful play and that adults respond to and extend child-initiated play through effective teaching so that children make good progress given their starting points 27/03/2015 increase awareness of how to use observation and assessment to better understand children's level of achievement, interests and learning styles; use the information to support the planning process, in order to shape learning experiences for each child 27/03/2015

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encourage parents to share information from the progress check completed for children between the ages of two and three years, and agree with parents when will be the most useful time to complete the check, in order to support integrated working with health visitors 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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encourage parents to contribute to the initial assessment of children's starting points, in order to plan effectively to meet their learning needs and share information in order to support parents in guiding their child's development at home 27/03/2015

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keep records of accidents which occur on the premises where childcare is provided and any medicine administered to any child who is cared for on the premises, including the date and circumstances and who administered it, together with a record of a parent, carer or guardian's consent (compulsory part of the Childcare Register) 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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Action Due date Closed date

keep records of accidents which occur on the premises where childcare is provided and any medicine administered to any child who is cared for on the premises, including the date and circumstances and who administered it, together with a record of a parent, guardian or carer's consent (voluntary part of the Childcare Register) 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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increase knowledge and understanding of child development and the learning and development requirements, by accessing training and development opportunities in order to offer quality learning and development experiences for children 27/03/2015 keep a written record of accidents or injuries and any first-aid treatment given 27/03/2015 28/04/2015

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gain a secure knowledge and understanding the action to be taken in the event of an allegation of abuse being made against the childminder 20/04/2015 28/04/2015

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