Setting EY486424

Report for Childcare on Domestic Premises

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 23 May 2016 Not applicable

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 2

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Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This provision requires improvement. It is not yet good because:

 The childminder does not offer enough guidance for staff to fully understand the systems in place to monitor and assess children's progress. The quality of assessment is inconsistent. It does not help staff to ensure that teaching is continually targeted precisely to help children make good progress.  Not all staff make the best use of all opportunities to help very young children to develop their communication and language skills.  Self-evaluation processes are not fully effective in identifying all areas for improvement.

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It has the following strengths

 Children form strong bonds with their key person. This helps them to feel secure in the environment. Toddlers independently access a range of resources that entice and motivate them to explore.  Children have good opportunities to develop their physical and social skills. For example, they attend additional clubs, such as music, sports and ballet, and enjoy a variety of outings to places of interest in their community.  Staff use a variety of methods, including ongoing research, to develop their practice and improve the quality of activities.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage the provider must:

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Due Date

 improve the support and mentoring for staff, to make sure that they understand how to use regular and precise assessments of learning to target teaching to help children make consistently good progress. 28/06/2016

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Due Date

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

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Due Date

 offer more consistent support for young children to develop their communication and language skills  make better use of ongoing self-evaluation to identify areas for improvement.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed staff playing with children indoors and outdoors.  The inspector reviewed a sample of documentation.  The inspector and childminder participated in a joint observation.  The inspector spoke to staff about safeguarding.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management requires improvement

Safeguarding is effective. The owner and her staff have a clear understanding of child protection and know how to report a concern, should the need arise. The owner regularly meets with staff to talk through concerns and help them to reflect on their practice. However, she does not support them well enough to ensure that they implement an effective and regular assessment system for all children. The owner is keen to strengthen and improve her practice, for example, she develops resource packs to help children to learn at home. The childminder maintains positive relationships with parents and requests their feedback to help identify ways to improve the quality of the provision. However, overall, self-evaluation is not rigorous enough to identify all areas for improvement.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

The weaknesses in the assessment of children's progress lead to inconsistencies in the level of challenge that activities offer. Children do not always receive support to make the best possible progress, for example, in their communication and language. However, children participate in a wide range of activities that reflect their interests, and staff successfully offer some encouragement to extend their enjoyment and understanding. For example, staff encourage children to learn about life cycles. They show the children some caterpillars and read a story about how caterpillars turn into butterflies, using props to engage younger children. Staff encourage children's creativity well. For example, children enjoy singing songs and happily join in an activity to make fruits with play dough. They make balls, fruits and ice creams with the dough, developing good coordination as they use plastic knives, cutters and rollers to mould the dough.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Staff support children's good health well. For example, they encourage children to exercise outdoors with balls and hula hoops and to eat healthy foods to support their physical well- being. Staff are attentive to children's safety and their emotional and care needs. For example, they help very young children to learn to crawl down stairs backwards to keep themselves safe. Staff check for, and eliminate, risks in the environment. They encourage children to develop self-care skills to help them to be more independent. For example, children spread their own cream cheese on to crackers. Staff praise children to help them to develop good self-esteem.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children make steady progress overall. However, the variations in the effectiveness in assessment and planning mean that they do not always achieve as well as possible. Children have fun and play well with others. They are confident and behave well. Overall, they are adequately prepared for their future learning, such as moving on to nursery.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY486424 Local authority Wandsworth Inspection number 1017773 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Domestic Registers Early Years Register Age range of children 1 - 2 Total number of places 9 Number of children on roll 17

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reference number

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

Little Wombles Childcare registered in 2015 and is located in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is open from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, 48 weeks a year. There are six staff. The owner holds qualified teacher status, the manager holds a qualification at level 3 and one member of staff holds a qualification at level 2. The setting receives funding for the provision of free early education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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