Childminder EY440769

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 17 March 2016 16 October 2015

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This inspection: Good 2

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2

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This inspection: Good 2

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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This provision is good

 The childminder has made excellent progress in improving the provision since the last inspection. He now uses his qualifications well to help children make good progress. He benefits from the support of the local authority who provide information and legislation updates. He gathers information from websites to refresh his knowledge and skills.  Children are supervised well at all times. The childminder provides a safe environment and carries out regular risk assessments to help keep children safe.  The childminder has a good knowledge of child development. He knows the children in his care very well. He is aware of their interests and how they learn best. His quality of teaching is good. This has a positive impact on the progress children make. All children make good progress in their learning and development.  Children clearly enjoy their time in the childminder's welcoming home. They are confident and settled. The childminder is responsive to the children's needs. He shares

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This provision is good

his time between them to support their emotional well-being. He has created warm, appropriate, strong bonds with them. Children are respectful and behave well.  Children respond positively to the regular praise and reassurance provided by the kind and caring childminder. This helps to enhance children's self-esteem. Children develop a 'can do' attitude to learning as they have confidence in their own abilities.  The childminder works extremely well with his co-childminder. They communicate effectively to help children in their care make good progress in their learning and development and to ensure a high level of continuity in children's care.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The childminder has not yet fully established an effective two-way flow of information about children's next steps in learning with other settings they attend.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 develop more effective partnerships with other settings that children may attend, in order to exchange more information about children's next steps in learning.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities and reviewed the quality of teaching.  The inspector viewed all areas of the home used for childminding and the toys and resources available.  The inspector looked at children's assessment records, planning documentation and a range of other documentation, including policies and procedures, and discussed the childminder's self-evaluation documents.  The inspector checked evidence of the suitability and qualifications of adults living and working on the premises.  The inspector held discussions with the childminder and his co-childminder at appropriate times during the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has a thorough knowledge of the possible signs of abuse. He is confident in the process for reporting any concerns about a child in his care. The childminder and his co-childminder regularly review and reflect on their work and have made excellent improvements since the last inspection. The childminder has clear targets for future development. Information is shared daily with parents, along with ideas about how they can continue their children's learning at home. Parents, in turn, provide information on their children's achievements at home. This shared approach helps to ensure that children make optimum progress.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder makes accurate and regular assessments of what children know and can do. He uses these assessments to check their progress and to identify and close any gaps in their learning. Information obtained from other professionals is used in his planning to help him to meet the needs of disabled children and those with special educational needs. Activities that are fun and challenging are planned to help children achieve their next steps in learning. Children are encouraged to lead their own play. They choose from a broad range of good quality toys and resources. The childminder interacts very well with children. He uses good questioning techniques to extend children's learning without interrupting or taking over children's play. Children freely access resources, such as, pencils, pens, brushes, glue, glitter and chalks indoors and outside. These resources help children develop pencil control, write for a purpose and ignite their imagination. Children

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

are encouraged to develop their early writing skills as they attempt to write letters from their names. Others draw the shapes they have been learning recently and point out the patterns they create. Children's communication and language skills are supported well. The childminder has many purposeful and interesting conversations with children during their play and routines. He reinforces pronunciation to ensure that children hear words spoken correctly.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children build positive relationships as they play cooperatively alongside each other. They develop a secure understanding of how to manage their own behaviour through clear consistent guidance from the childminder. The childminder helps children to learn to keep themselves safe. For example, they know why they must not run in the childminder's home. Children enjoy social mealtimes during which they are provided with home cooked, nutritious and healthy snacks and meals.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children make good progress from their starting points and are working confidently at the expected levels for their ages. They have good levels of self-esteem and confidence. Children are learning to manage conflict appropriately. They are learning key skills and attitudes to prepare them for the next stage in their learning and their eventual move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY440769 Local authority Staffordshire Inspection number 1031195 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 4

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 16 October 2015

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2011 and lives in Burntwood. He operates all year round from 7.15am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate childcare qualification at level 2. He works with a co- childminder.

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Telephone number

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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Telephone number

procedures set out in the guidance ‘Complaints procedure: raising concerns and making complaints about Ofsted’, which is available from Ofsted’s website: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofsted. If you would like Ofsted to send you a copy of the guidance, please telephone 0300 123 4234, or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, work-based learning and skills training, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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