West Berkshire Mencap

West Berkshire Mencap Enborne Gate, Enborne Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG14 6AT

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 28 July 2017 4 August 2015

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Requires Improvement

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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 Outstanding 1

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This provision is good

 Staff provide good-quality play activities that meet the interests of individual children. For example, children are excited to see the train track and trains. This helps the parents and children to separate from each other with confidence.  All staff understand the medical care needs of their individual children well. Staff and volunteers provide good-quality care for the children.  Children, including the most vulnerable, use the outdoor area very well. All staff extend the children's play opportunities so all children have fun.  The management has a good knowledge of children's needs and uses this well to design individual care plans. This enables staff to provide experiences and care for the children successfully. This helps parents to know that their children are safe and happy during their time at the playscheme.  The daily sharing of information between staff and parents is very good. Staff are

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This provision is good

aware of any changes in children's behaviour since their last session. Staff understand how children are and how they feel. This supports staff to keep children safe.

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It is not yet outstanding because:

 The management does not routinely share the aims for the children with the volunteers to help them support children's personal development more effectively.  Volunteers do not talk enough to the children during their play to help them to connect with others, make decisions and express their feelings.

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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

 provide more in-depth information to help the volunteers to understand the setting's aims for the children to improve their development of personal skills  offer further support to volunteers to extend their understanding of the importance of talking with children during their play experiences.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed activities in the indoor and outdoor areas.  The inspector spoke to members of staff, volunteers, children and parents at appropriate times throughout the session.  The inspector looked at children's records, evidence of staff suitability, and a range of other documentation.  The inspector held discussions with the management of the setting.  The inspection took place during a playscheme in the summer holidays.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

The management has addressed the actions from the last inspection. The recruitment processes for staff and volunteers are robust. Staff and volunteers are actively deployed throughout the session. The self-evaluation is an accurate reflection of the strengths of the provision. For example, the management has improved the quality of its contributions to children's reviews, which it attends. This helps parents to feel confident that staff know their children really well. The leadership has high expectations and supports the staff to have appropriate training for the playscheme. For example, staff are confident in helping children with seizures and understand how to support children with their complex needs. Safeguarding is effective. The manager provides reports and takes part in meetings to help them to understand the children's needs. Staff know how to gain additional help if they have concerns about the children's safety and well-being. The management works

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is good

very well with professional and voluntary partners.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Staff plan play activities and resources that are successful in meeting children's needs. The manager and an additional member of staff remain in a supervisory role. This helps them to assist with children's early signs of frustration and support volunteers to manage effective meaningful play. Staff enable children to select their own activities and they have individual support from either a staff member or a volunteer. For example, they are supported to make a sensory bag with a variety of items. Children in the sensory room can stretch, respond to lights and learn to roll over from back to front. Staff know the children well and they talk effectively with them. Children without verbal communication skills respond with smiles, by turning their heads, closing their eyes or taking an adult's hand. Children whose capacity to communicate is restricted receive support to make choices. Staff skilfully interpret facial or bodily signs to know if the child is happy.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The routine at the beginning of each day is exceptionally well planned. For example, every family is personally greeted by the manager and the key worker or volunteer assigned to be with the child that day. The environment is extremely high quality and the selected resources meet children's interests exceptionally well. For instance, new starters are extremely excited to see the train set and they settle to play straight away. This helps parents to be very happy to see their children's enthusiasm. The activities are safe, of very high quality and support learning for all children who attend. For example, there are swings and a roundabout for children in wheelchairs to access. There are a number of slides of different difficulty that children really enjoy. Children laugh and smile as they experience the freedom and speed of decent. Staff take children swimming, and wheelchair users enjoy the freedom of movement in the water. Lunch and snack times are

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

extremely sociable occasions when children mix with staff. Children who need to eat in a smaller group are provided with smaller tables at the side of the large group. Children develop a very strong sense of self. Most children behave well. They respond very well to staff's distraction strategies if play becomes too robust for others near them.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 955621 Local authority West Berkshire (Newbury) Inspection number 1057582 Type of provision Out of school provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 3 - 10 Total number of places 25 Number of children on roll 14 Name of registered person West Berkshire Mencap

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 4 August 2015 Telephone number 01635 41464

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West Berkshire Mencap Children's Services are provided by West Berkshire Mencap. They registered in 1997. Facilities offered include a holiday playscheme, Saturday schemes, weekly toddler and support groups and a variety of after-school clubs for children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities. The club's operational hours depend on the funding it has available. The manager holds an appropriate qualification. The club employs 20 permanent staff who are supported by a number of volunteers.

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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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