Home Childcarer in Essex

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 19 May 2016 13 December 2010

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder ensures that the promotion of equality, inclusion, respect for others and the British Values is at the heart of her work. Children have a wealth of opportunities to be involved in helping the local community. The childminder evaluates how inclusive her setting is. She has formed an equality working group to ensure she maintains her very high standards.  The childminder provides an extremely well-resourced environment, both indoors and outside. She forms exceptionally caring bonds with the children. She shows a heart- warming respect and love for them which they reciprocate eagerly. Children settle extremely well in her care and show very high levels of confidence and self-control.  The childminder has extremely high expectations of herself. She continually researches new trends in early years practice to enhance her excellent knowledge and skills. She completes in-depth training courses based around the needs of children in her care and

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This provision is outstanding

her own professional aspirations.  The childminder forms highly effective partnerships with parents. She highly values them as their children's first educators. She works very closely with them, ensuring they are fully aware of how they can implement learning through play and effectively extend their children's learning at home.  The childminder evaluates every aspect of her setting with absolute precision. She actively seeks the views of parents, children, childminders and the local authority to help inform her very ambitious plans for improvement. She completes additional evaluations, such as safeguarding and access audits, to ensure that every aspect of her setting provides the highest quality of care.  The childminder implements very thorough and incisive evaluation of her assistant's practice. Even when her assistant is only working emergency cover, the childminder takes great care to ensure her training courses and procedures are up to date.

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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

 continue to enhance the excellent educational opportunities for children who learn best outdoors.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the indoor and outdoor learning environment where children play and viewed all areas of the home used for childminding.  The inspector observed a focused activity and evaluated the quality of teaching with the childminder.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's development records, planning and a range of other documentation, including policies and procedures and risk assessments.  The inspector checked evidence of the qualifications of the childminder, her suitability and the suitability of her assistant and other household members.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to at inspection and expressed in the childminder's own parent survey.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder meticulously monitors children's progress. She completes very in-depth observations of their development. She documents even the slightest gaps she identifies in their learning. She swiftly implements intensive support to ensure children continue to make excellent progress. The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has a very good knowledge of the signs and symptoms of abuse and knows the appropriate action to take if she has concerns about a child. The childminder provides an extremely well-resourced garden. She intends to continue building on this to provide further educational opportunities for children who learn best outdoors.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The very experienced and qualified childminder ensures there is an extremely sharp focus on supporting children to acquire excellent communication and language skills. She gets down to children's level, speaks clearly, repeats the correct pronunciation of words and continually adds new words into children's vocabulary. She provides children with extensive opportunities to learn about the world around them. For vegetarian week, the children tasted meat and meat-free products and decided which was which. They also talked about the vegetarian lifestyle and how it was the same or different to theirs. The childminder supports children who have special educational needs or disability very well. She works closely with parents and other professionals to put targeted plans of support in place. The childminder seizes every opportunity to extend children's thinking skills. Children test out their own ideas with absolute confidence and help each other to solve

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children settle exceptionally well and develop very high levels of confidence and self- esteem. The childminder's constant communication with parents ensures that she can always meet children's emotional needs superbly. She shows that she utterly respects the children as individuals. She provides them with privacy when they are attending to their personal needs. Children are exceptionally well behaved. The childminder consistently promotes children's understanding of their own safety throughout activities. She supports children to think about why they must not give their dolls too much medicine in one go. Children have extensive opportunities to experience fresh air and physical exercise.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make excellent progress given their starting points and capabilities. They are extremely well prepared for the next stage in their learning, including starting school. Children who receive additional funding are catching up with their peers and gaps in their learning are closing rapidly or have already closed. Children develop excellent independence skills. They help to prepare snack, set up activities and resolve disputes with their peers. They have excellent listening and attention skills and carefully follow the childminder's instructions.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY356378 Local authority Essex Inspection number 849526 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 12 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 15

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 13 December 2010

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2007 and lives in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder also employs an assistant. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3. She provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The childminder supports children who have special educational needs or disability.

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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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