Doodles Day Care Ltd

Doodles Day Care Ltd Doodles Day care Ltd, 28-30 Nickson Road, Coventry, CV4 9RU

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 May 2016 29 July 2015

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Inadequate 4

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate 4

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This provision is inadequate

 The provider is not fulfilling her responsibility in implementing and meeting statutory requirements effectively to promote children’s learning and safety. Not all staff are trained and have sufficient knowledge of safeguarding.  The quality of teaching has declined since the last inspection. As a result, children do not receive a consistently good standard of teaching and they are not prepared well for school. In some cases, where teaching is poor, children are not engaged or challenged enough and do not make the progress of which they are capable.  Staff deployment is not good enough to ensure that qualification requirements and ratios are always met. Trainee staff are given key person responsibilities but do not have sufficient knowledge and skills to support and meet the needs of children, particularly the most vulnerable.  Managers' monitoring of staff's practice and children's progress is not good enough.

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This provision is inadequate

New staff, particularly apprentices are not supported well enough to gain the necessary skills they need to support children’s learning and development effectively.  Risk assessments are ineffective. Staff do not take account of all potential hazards to ensure children are safe. Consequently, too many accidents occur within the setting.  Staff's assessments of children's progress are not always accurate. Consequently, managers do not know the progress all children make. Staff do not have a secure understanding of the current planning systems.

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It has the following strengths

 Babies form secure attachments with their key person. Parents are welcomed and encouraged to engage in their children's learning through learning journals. Parents speak highly of the staff and the care their children receive.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

The provision is inadequate and Ofsted intends to take enforcement action We will issue a Welfare Requirements Notice requiring the provider to:

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Due Date

 safeguard children by ensuring that all staff are suitably trained, have up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding issues and are aware of the action to take when there is a safeguarding concern 24/06/2016

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 ensure all children make at least good progress through supporting staff to gain the knowledge and skills they need to support children's learning effectively 10/08/2016

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 meet the needs of all children and ensure their safety at all times by the effective deployment of staff, so that the most appropriate and qualified staff spend time engaging purposefully with children and maintain ratio requirements 10/08/2016

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 ensure children make the best possible progress in their learning and development by supporting trainee staff to gain the knowledge and skills to improve: their role as a key person; the quality of teaching; assess children's learning; and to plan appropriate and challenging activities for them 10/08/2016

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Due Date

 ensure all children make at least good progress through the implementation of robust and effective systems to monitor the quality of staff's practice and children's progress in order to gain an accurate understanding of any gaps in their learning. Take swift action to ensure teaching is effective and gaps are closing 10/08/2016

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Due Date

 take all reasonable steps to ensure children are not exposed to risks by implementing effective risk assessments that identify aspects of the environment that need to be checked on a regular basis. 03/06/2016 To meet the requirements of the Childcare Register the provider must:

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Due Date

 ensure all staff are trained on the procedures to be followed to safeguard children (Compulsory part of the Childcare Register only) 24/06/2016

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Due Date

 take the necessary steps to ensure that all staff have suitable skills and experience to care for children (Compulsory part of the Childcare Register only) 10/08/2016

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Due Date

 take all necessary steps to minimise any risks to the health and safety of the children in your care (Applies to both parts of the Childcare register. 03/06/2016

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Inspection activities

 One of Her Majesty’s Inspectors carried out this inspection.  The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities in the play rooms and outside learning environment, and assessed the impact this has on children's learning and well-being.  The inspector completed joint observations with the Quality Manager.  The inspector held meetings with the Quality Manager, the deputy manager and spoke with staff and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at relevant documentation, such as staff files, accident and complaint records, and children's assessment records.  The inspector spoke with a small selection of parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Safeguarding is ineffective. Inexperienced staff caring for vulnerable children do not always identify children’s specific needs and take prompt and appropriate action to ensure interventions are secured. Consequently, these children do not receive the support they need as quickly as they should to support their health, safety and learning needs. A training plan to support staff’s professional development is in place but leaders do not take action quickly enough to ensure all staff have skills and knowledge to safeguard and support children’s learning effectively. However, the designated safeguarding lead is trained at an appropriate level and works with other agencies to safeguard children.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Staff's lack of effective planning and poor deployment of staff to supervise children, both indoors and outside, results in too many accidents taking place. Staff took prompt action following a child receiving a significant injury during a recent fall. However, staff fail to identify and minimise all risks to children. For example, rugs and toys left lying on the floor are tripping hazards, and sharp metal edges on the base of a television stand are exposed when children remove the cushions covering them.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Since the recent recruitment of the quality manager and with the local authority's support, improvements are beginning to take place. For example, recruitment procedures are more robust and the learning environment has been improved to better support children's learning, particularly in mathematics. However, induction, training and support, particularly for inexperienced staff, are weak. Managers have taken some action to improve the monitoring of the provision and staff's practice but this has had little impact and weaknesses remain. Staff are not effective in evaluating the success of the activities they plan for the children. Supervision meetings take place each month where targets are set, staff's progress is reviewed, and children's learning journals are sampled. However, the manager's recent tracking of all children's progress indicates that these are not effective. Assessments, in some instances, are inaccurate and staff are insecure in

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

planning for children's learning. This means that children's next steps are not matched accurately to meet their needs and managers and staff do not have an accurate understanding of the progress all children make.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Staff provide children with an adequate range of opportunities to learn about people and communities during daily activities and celebrate festivals such as Diwali, Chinese New Year, Easter and Christmas. Children are given choice in their play.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

Teaching is not good enough. Managers have failed to ensure that trainee staff, who are included in ratios, are competent and responsible to care for young children. Some staff have a poor understanding of how to support children's learning and development. These staff are not sufficiently guided to undertake appropriate training and professional development opportunities prior to taking on the additional responsibilities of a key person. This includes the responsibility for planning the learning and development experiences for children. Staff's lack of knowledge and skills, and weak teaching mean that children who speak English as an additional language do not receive the support they need to help them make good progress in their learning.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

The educational programmes involve activities and experiences for children across the seven areas of learning. However, children's next steps are not linked securely to what children need to learn next. Staff do not plan a good range of activities for learning indoors and outdoors to ensure all the children continue to be challenged, interested and excited. Staff do not ensure that the indoor and outdoor learning environment is always set up with resources and activities ready for children. Planning for groups of children does not take place. As a result of these weaknesses, children are not developing as quickly as they could and do not have the skills they need when moving onto school.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

Systems for observation, assessment and planning for children’s learning have recently changed to improve consistency across the staff team, but are not yet embedded. Managers now complete records of children’s progress. These records indicate that previous assessments were inaccurate and staff are now reassessing children’s development.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

Some improvements have been made to improve the range of resources available to children. However, the quality and range of resources and equipment to support older children's learning remain poor and are not good enough to challenge them in their learning. Children's learning journals are of variable quality. Staff engage parents in their children's learning and help them to support their children's learning at home.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Staff do not ensure that children are safe at all times because hazards are not identified and swiftly tackled, good behaviour management is not consistently implemented, and staff are not suitably deployed. For example, when a child tripped and sustained a significant injury, no qualified staff were present in the room. This is a breach of requirements. Furthermore, poor supervision and the lack of staff's engagement with children demonstrating challenging behaviour, results in children getting hurt by other children's actions such as pushing and shoving. The key person system is not fully effective in supporting children's emotional well-being. This is partly due to new staff getting to know their key children and families, but also due to staff’s limited skills. However, most parents spoken with know who their child's key person is, receive daily feedback about their child's day and are happy with the setting.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Children are generally happy and settled. The premises are secure and maintained to a satisfactory standard. There is a varied range of furniture and play equipment easily accessible to children. However, some resources and equipment are not age appropriate. For example, the sand tray in the doodlers’ room is too small to support older children's play. Staff generally promote positive behaviour. Staff remind children not to run indoors, and frequently praise good behaviour. Most children are learning right from wrong and show they feel safe. Staff support children in forming positive relationships with other children so they play cooperatively and enjoy each other's company. All children sit and eat well together developing their social skills. However, staff do not maximise opportunities to promote children's knowledge, such as promoting healthy eating. Children become aware of other cultures and the needs of others as staff involve them in different

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

celebrations and a range of activities within the setting.

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Outcomes for children are inadequate

Weak teaching means that the children's progress is too slow. The older and more-able children are not always challenged enough to maximise their learning and children with speech and language delay are not sufficiently supported to develop their communication skills. Therefore, children do not make the progress of which they are capable. Staff’s assessments of children’s progress are mostly inaccurate. They do not know if all children make at least typical progress for their age. For those children with learning and development delay staff do not always involve parents or other agencies as quickly as they could to close the gap. Managers do not know if gaps in attainment between different groups are closing quickly enough. The few more able children are beginning to write their own names, link numbers to sets of objects and are developing an understanding of symmetry. Children recognise and name shapes and colours. They are developing skills

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Outcomes for children are inadequate

such as sitting and listening during story times, becoming independent in their self-care and serving their own food. Although developing too slowly, these skills are important preparation for their move on to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY387284 Local authority Coventry Inspection number 1041947 Type of provision Full-time provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 6 Total number of places 36 Number of children on roll 31 Name of provider Doodles Day Care Ltd Date of previous inspection 29 July 2015 Telephone number 0247 646 0644

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Setting details

Doodles Day Care Ltd was registered in 2008 and operates from converted premises in the Tile Hill area of Coventry. The setting is open from Monday to Friday, from 7am until 6pm, for 51 weeks of the year. Children aged two, three and four years receive funding for early education. There are nine members of childcare staff. Of these, eight hold appropriate qualifications in early years, one at level 5, two at level 4, three at level 3, two at level 2, and three are working towards a qualification.

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Setting details

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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