Childminder in Wakefield

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 24 August 2016 3 February 2014

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Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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 Requires improvement Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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

 The quality of teaching is not strong enough to help children make consistently good progress.  The strategies used to encourage parents to regularly share information about their children's learning at home are not wholly successful.  The childminder does not allow children to mix resources. This hinders their imagination and prevents them from following their own ideas.

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It has the following strengths

 As part of her settling-in process, the childminder arranges to meet in a venue, such as a play centre that children are used to visiting with their parents. The childminder becomes part of their group and children quickly develop a bond with her. This helps them to settle quickly when they start at her setting.  The childminder accurately assesses children's progress and identifies their next steps in learning.  The childminder provides children with simple instructions and demonstrates how to do things. This helps children to succeed at what they set out to do during planned activities.  The childminder gathers information from parents about what children already know and can do before they start.

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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 teaching so that children benefit from good quality adult guidance and challenging learning experiences. 30/09/2016

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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

 explore more ways to encourage parents to share information about what children are learning at home  provide more opportunities for children to mix resources and enable them to follow their own ideas.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the childminder's home.  The inspector evaluated two planned activities with the childminder.  The inspector spoke to the children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at children's records and a range of other documentation, including training certificates and evidence of suitability checks.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management requires improvement

The childminder is aware of areas in her practice that require improvement, in particular, raising the quality of teaching. The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder carries out regular risk assessments of the indoor and outdoor areas, resources and equipment. The childminder has attended appropriate training since her last inspection. This has helped her to improve her observations and assessments of children's progress and knowledge of the different ways that they learn. She has improved her knowledge and understanding of the procedures to implement should a child be at risk of abuse and adapted her safeguarding procedures accordingly. The childminder provides parents with information about her policies and procedures.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

The well-qualified childminder does not always use the teaching knowledge she has effectively. She does not make the most of activities and interactions to promote children's learning and help them make good progress. For example, she models simple words and phrases for younger children repeat. However, she does not repeat them often enough to help secure children's understanding of the words they are using. The childminder is skilled at asking children questions, but she does not always give them thinking time to put their own thoughts into words before she answers them herself. Children enjoy mark- making activities, helping to develop their early writing skills. Some children use stencils while younger children draw freehand, showing their developing skills as they draw lines and circles. Their learning is extended as the childminder encourages them to make dough representations of their pictures. Children are learning about the local community around

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

them. They gather plants and flowers on a walk to a local garden and listen to stories in the library.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare require improvement

The childminder does not fully consider how children may like to explore and find different ways of doing things. For example, she does not recognise that children may wish to play with cars and play dough together to explore the marks they can make. This means that children are occasionally prevented from following through with their own ideas. The childminder has a playful, relaxed attitude with children that they respond warmly to. Children are encouraged to eat healthily and to drink water when they are thirsty. Their physical development is appropriately supported. They are helped to develop their physical skills. For example, they learn how to hold writing tools correctly and visit local parks, where they learn to negotiate the steps up to the slides.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children are not making consistently good progress. Although gaps in their learning are closing, weaknesses in teaching practice mean that they do not close as quickly as possible. Children are developing their understanding of being polite and cooperating with others. One way they do this is by learning to share resources during small-group activities.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY333791 Local authority Wakefield Inspection number 1051250 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 9 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 7

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 3 February 2014

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2006 and lives in Wakefield. She operates all year round from 6am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate 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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