Childminder in Blackburn with Darwen

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 8 March 2018 27 November 2014

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder is truly committed to his role. He has significantly enhanced the quality of teaching and learning since the last inspection. For instance, the childminder applies a more rapid approach to consolidating and building on children's current skills and abilities. This contributes towards the outstanding achievements that children make.  The childminder creates a nurturing, calm and cheery atmosphere. He forms superb relationships with children and provides them with a plenty of love and care. This helps children to feel welcome, secure and valued in a place they class as a 'second home'.  The childminder treasures each and every child. He shows an admirable commitment to getting it right for every child, helping them to reach their full potential and to flourish into confident and independent individuals. This helps to equip children with lifelong skills for the future and drives their pure determination to continually succeed.

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This provision is outstanding

 The highly trained childminder aspires to extend on his excellent knowledge and skills through creative and customised professional development. He is alert to global lifestyle changes, such as the increased use of technology, and promptly measures the impact of these on children's welfare and learning, to help to identify 'how much is too much'.  The childminder works in true partnership with parents. He provides unique home learning ideas, such as repeatedly counting the number of vegetables on tea plates, to help parents expand children's awareness of using one number name for each item.

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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

 continue to strengthen the excellent partnerships formed with other settings that children attend, particularly with those recently acquainted, to promote even higher levels of continuity and collaborative working.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the quality of teaching and assessed the impact this has on children's learning and development.  The inspector and the childminder jointly evaluated an activity.  The inspector spoke with the childminder, the co-childminder and children at appropriate times during the inspection.  The inspector looked at evidence of suitability, a record of the childminder's qualifications and training, policies and procedures, health and safety documents and children's observation and assessment records. She discussed self-evaluation with the provider.  The inspector took account of the views of parents spoken to on the day of the inspection.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

Safeguarding is effective. The childminder considers all aspects of children's safety and welfare in his everyday policy and practice. Extensive training and regular updates help to ensure the childminder has a first-rate knowledge of child protection procedures. Children are expertly engaged in the risk assessment process. For example, the childminder provides opportunities for children to take part in innovative role-play scenarios that boost their knowledge of assessing the quickest and safest exit routes in the event of a fire. Admirable tracking is used well to secure timely interventions and close any gaps in children's learning. The childminder recognises the need to strengthen the partnerships formed with newly acquainted settings that children attend, to promote even higher levels of continuity and collaborative working. The childminder works in true partnership with his co-childminder to scrupulously evaluate and enrich the quality of provision.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

Observations and assessments of children's learning are accurate and precise. The knowledgeable childminder provides first-class learning experiences for children to engage in that spark their innate curiosity and imagination. For example, children readily engage in pretend play and imitate everyday actions from home. The childminder's excellent use of questions help to expand children's breadth of vocabulary, deepen their thinking skills and increase their knowledge of pre-positions, such as in, on and under. Excellent interventions are applied to move play on. For example, the childminder asks children to help with clothing a doll to boost their self-care skills. He makes links to everyday routines to advance children's knowledge of superior hygiene practices.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

The childminder is alert to spontaneous events that occur in the natural world, such as snowfall. He takes account of children's own preferences and ideas and engages them in inventive experiences, such as taking a snowman sledging, to help them adopt active and healthy lifestyles. The childminder's calm, sensitive and positive nature is transpired through his high-quality interactions and contributes towards the impeccable behaviour that children demonstrate. The childminder is highly responsive to children's physical needs. He uses effective techniques, such as reading a soothing bedtime story in a calming environment, to help children relax and settle before sleep.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

All children make outstanding progress and gain exceptional skills for school. Children are enthusiastic and motivated learners. They have a strong sense of their own immediate family and form special friendships with their peers. Children show an immense interest in books and illustrations. They turn pages from left to right and fill in missing words from familiar stories. Children learn new words very rapidly and speak in short sentences. They are kind, respectful and considerate of others. Children are clearly very happy and comfortable in their engaging and captivating surroundings.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY338048 Local authority Blackburn Inspection number 1104515 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 1 - 3 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5

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Name of registered person

Date of previous inspection 27 November 2014

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2006 and lives in Darwen, Lancashire. He works together with his wife, who is also a registered childminder. The childminder operates all year round, from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. He provides funded early education for two- three- and four-year-olds. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 5.

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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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