Childminder EY477908

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 23 November 2016 Not applicable

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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 is clearly focused on raising the quality of her provision and has a strong approach to her continuous improvement. She seeks professional training to improve her already good skills and carefully monitors both her practice and children's progress.  Children are happy, engaged and thoroughly enjoy their time with the childminder. The childminder provides children with a variety of good quality activities and resources, to promote their good progress across all areas of learning.  Children are happy and secure with the warm, caring and very welcoming childminder. They actively seek her out in their play and for reassurance when needed, supporting their emotional well-being and self-confidence.  The childminder has very good relationships with parents. Learning is shared and parents contribute to their child's assessment. Learning is supported at home providing a consistent approach to children's care and early education.

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This provision is good

 The childminder knows children well. Children are well behaved and play cooperatively together as they are supported to respect and consider each other in their play.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 Although the childminder supports children in their play, on occasions, she over directs their play and does not allow children sufficient time to come up with their own ideas and solutions before providing possible answers to simple problems.

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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

 allow children more time to find out things for themselves, explore their own learning and to think about their own responses and solutions to their play and simple problems.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the playroom, kitchen and outdoor area.  The inspector sampled children's assessment records, planning documentation and a range of other records, policies and procedures.  The inspector checked evidence of the childminder's suitability, training certificates and her self-evaluation and improvement plans.  The inspector spoke with the childminder and children throughout the inspection.  The inspector and childminder undertook a joint observation and discussed children's learning while they were engaged in the activities.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective. The childminder has undertaken training in safeguarding. She is confident of the action to take to protect children and has all necessary information, such as the telephone numbers of the local agencies. All supporting policies and procedures are in place and very well organised. The home is risk assessed, which helps her to identify hazards and minimise risks. The childminder has evaluated her provision, setting clear targets for what she wants to improve and how to extend children's already good learning. For example, she has recently embedded an online system for monitoring children's progress. Although she is not currently working with any external agencies, she is aware of how to do this if the need arises. Parents speak very highly of the care and learning the childminder provides.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder has secure systems for observing, assessing and tracking children's progress. She plans for their future learning accurately and links this to current themes skilfully. For example, the topic for the week is road safety. The childminder sits with children joining in with their games. A wonderful traffic light game helps children to understand the safety aspect and meaning of the colours of the traffic lights. They enjoy stopping and starting as the childminder calls out the colours of the lights. From such activities, younger children are beginning to make connections with the name of the colours while older children understand the sequencing. The childminder effectively promotes children's speaking and listening skills and introduces numbers and letters through everyday play.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children are very well behaved. Their good health and well-being is given utmost priority. They learn about positive lifestyles and healthy foods. Children listen to instructions to get ready for snack and excitedly go to wash their hands. Although younger children need more support, they are managing their personal needs well. The childminder helps older and younger children to become independent. For example, children get their own plates and serve themselves at snack time from the selection of fruit. Children have many opportunities to be outdoors in the exciting garden. They are supported to take calculated risk and enjoy riding the bicycles and running freely. They delight in exploring the mud and leaves. They explore the small wriggly worm under the magnifying glass and find out about the natural world.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children are making consistently good progress across all areas of their learning. They are confident and understand the expectations for behaviour. They are becoming independent and are mostly managing their personal needs well. They are learning to play together, to share and to turn takes in their play. Children are becoming confident, active learners who are developing the skills necessary for the next stage in their learning and move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY477908 Local authority Lancashire Inspection number 1075297 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 2

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder was registered in 2014 and lives in Chorley, Lancashire. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 6pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays.

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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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Telephone number

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