Childminder in Birmingham

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 21 April 2016 30 August 2012

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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's teaching is of a very good quality. She has a thorough understanding of how children learn through play. She provides plenty of challenge and stimulation for children through a wide range of exciting activities. She provides an exciting learning environment for children. She prepares them well for the next stage in their learning.  Parents receive detailed information about their children's progress and well-being. They update the childminder each day about their children's achievements and their changing interests and needs. The childminder guides parents well on how best to support children's learning at home. Children make very good progress in their learning and development.  Children are very happy and settled in the welcoming, family environment. Their individual needs are fully met and the childminder shares information daily with parents. This helps her provide consistency in children's routines. She gives the highest

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This provision is good

priority to children's well-being. Children are emotionally secure and their behaviour is excellent.  The childminder monitors her provision well. She has established effective links with other early years providers. These help her maintain a good quality provision and she shares ideas and good practice each week. She reflects on the good quality of her provision. She keeps up to date with her professional development through ongoing training.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Self-evaluation is not yet sharply focused enough to measure the impact of continuous improvement on children's learning.

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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

 strengthen the evaluation and monitoring of the provision even further, reviewing the impact of any improvements on the outcomes for children.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the childminder's home, both inside and in the garden.  The inspector spoke to the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector jointly observed and discussed with the childminder the teaching and learning activities provided.  The inspector took account of the views of parents, carers and children, including those expressed in recent letters.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has a very good understanding of how to protect children. She implements rigorous procedures to keep children safe. She is very aware of potential risks to children and she takes steps to minimise these. She reflects on her teaching and planning each week so that she can adapt them to meet the changing needs of all children. The childminder monitors individual children's progress carefully and closes any gaps in their learning quickly. She receives support from the local authority which helps her monitor her provision and make improvements. The childminder understands the importance of working with other professionals when this is necessary to support children.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder uses her detailed observations of children to measure their progress accurately. She tracks this through ongoing assessment and writes reviews every few months. She shares these with parents and keeps them very well informed about their child's progress. She uses her own initial assessments of children and the information she gathers from parents to establish clear starting points for children's learning. The childminder uses skilful and varied questioning to stimulate two-year-old children's language and vocabulary. They talk about the farm animals in a book and children tell the childminder what the animals are doing and where they are in the farmyard. She interacts very well in children's play, for example, she helps them count the buttons on a gingerbread man. She builds counting and colour recognition into daily routines.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Young children are learning to be independent in their self-care. The childminder encourages them to drink and feed themselves, which they do with confidence. Children enjoy fruit and a drink at snack time and a range of healthy meals at lunchtime. They form close bonds with the childminder. Children develop very good social skills and an awareness of the wider world through their activities at the childminder's house and the other groups she takes them to. The childminder praises children frequently and they gain confidence and good self-esteem. She prepares them very well emotionally for their move to nursery and school.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are developing their physical skills well through the use of a wide range of equipment in the childminder's garden, at local parks and soft-play venues. Children are very eager and enthusiastic in their play. They experiment with dabbing and making sweeping strokes with thick paintbrushes. They enjoy painting their hands and arms to mix colours and see how it feels. They grip a range of mark-making tools very well and form shapes in preparation for writing letters and numbers. Young children thoroughly enjoy decorating gingerbread men. They concentrate very well and persevere to squeeze icing from small tubes. Two-year-old children extend their sentences very well and know the names of all the creatures in a book about jungle animals.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY432101 Local authority Birmingham Inspection number 1042137 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 2 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection 30 August 2012

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2011 and lives near Birmingham. She operates from 8am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday, during school term time only. The childminder holds a childcare qualification at level 3.

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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

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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