Little Star Day Care Nursery

Little Star Day Care Nursery Cliftonville Community Centre, St Pauls Road, Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, CT9 2DB

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 2 May 2018 13 November 2017

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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 has failed to drive and sustain adequate improvement since the last inspection. This has a significant and detrimental impact on the outcomes for children.  Staff continue to lack a sound understanding of safeguarding, which compromises children's welfare, particularly those who are most at risk. They fail to manage unwanted behaviour appropriately to protect children's well-being.  The quality of teaching continues to be poor. Children make very little progress in key areas of learning, such as communication and language.  Staff fail to make accurate and purposeful observations and assessments of children's progress. This means children do not receive relevant support to ensure they achieve well as they move on in their education.  Parents are not encouraged to be fully involved in their children's learning and development.

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It has the following strengths

 Children enjoy running around outdoors, using the climbing frame and slide, and playing with their friends.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

The provision is inadequate and Ofsted intends to take enforcement action

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

We will issue a Welfare Requirements Notice requiring the provider to:

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Due Date

 train all staff to have a secure understanding of safeguarding, particularly regarding procedures to follow where there are concerns about adults, and ensure that all staff have an appropriate awareness of any children on child protection plans or in need 31/05/2018

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Due Date

 implement consistent and effective strategies to manage children's unwanted behaviour. 31/05/2018

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Due Date

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and the Childcare Register the provider must:

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Due Date

 carry out regular and purposeful observations and assessments of children's progress, including when they first join the nursery, to ensure children's individual needs and interests are supported appropriately and they make good progress 30/06/2018

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Due Date

 plan and provide children with a stimulating and challenging range of activities, both indoors and outdoors, based on each child's individual needs and interests 30/06/2018

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Due Date

 work effectively in partnership with parents, including from when their child joins the nursery, to involve them fully in their children's learning and development 30/06/2018

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Due Date

 train all staff on the statement of procedures to be followed to safeguard children. 30/06/2018

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Inspection activities

 The inspector held discussions with the manager and staff throughout the inspection.  The inspector observed the quality of teaching and the support for children's learning both indoors and outdoors.  The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including records of the progress that children have made, planning, staff records, and policies and procedures.  The inspector talked to parents who were available on the day of the inspection and took account of their views.  The inspector invited the manager to conduct a joint observation. She was included in ratios and unable to do so.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is inadequate

Safeguarding is not effective. Staff have undertaken training and the provider has a clear safeguarding policy in place. However, there continue to be gaps in staff's knowledge of child protection procedures and not all staff know which children are subject to child protection plans. This significantly affects how well they protect children from risks of harm. Since the last inspection, the provider and staff have received training and intensive support from the local authority. However, too little improvement has been made in evaluating practice and tackling the most important weaknesses so that children are taught well and kept safe. Most parents spoken to during the inspection comment positively about the nursery and how they feel welcomed.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

Most children fail to make any progress while other children's rates of development are slower than expected. Staff lack an understanding of how to accurately observe and assess children's learning. They do not use the information gathered, for example from progress checks for two-year-olds, to target support where children need it most. Staff do not provide challenging learning experiences that are based on children's individual learning needs. For example, when older children cannot change pieces of wooden train track to join them together, staff take over and do it for them. Staff do not encourage the children to try and solve the problem themselves through thought-provoking questioning. When staff plan activities they do not always follow them through. For example, a planned physical activity using ribbons to support children's physical development resulted in them being left to play alone. Children ended up simply winding ribbon around each other,

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is inadequate

rather than staff helping them to learn through good teaching. There is a varied range of resources in the nursery that incorporate all areas of learning. However, children tend to play with the same things because staff do not encourage them to investigate or explore different resources.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Weaknesses in safeguarding practices compromise children's well-being. At times, children's behaviour is poor. Staff fail to intervene appropriately so that children learn about expectations and British values, such as respect. This results in other children being hurt or upset, such as when a group of children run around and knock another child over. Staff try to use strategies, such as sand timers, to encourage sharing but do not follow these through in a confident way that supports children's understanding. Staff keep the nursery safe and secure and improvements have been made to cleanliness to protect children's health. The children are encouraged to eat the more nutritious food in their lunchboxes first, to support healthy eating. Staff support individual children who need help with feeding appropriately, so that they eat safely.

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Outcomes for children are inadequate

All children, particularly those with additional needs, are failing to make sufficient progress. They do not all gain the necessary skills to help them move on to the next stage of their learning. Children are left to their own devices while staff sit watching when they play at the sand table. When the children start throwing sand on the floor, staff do not take enough action to stop this or re-direct the children's learning. There are some positive opportunities for children to learn. For example, they enjoy outdoor play opportunities, where children act out imaginative games together, while others investigate musical instruments to support their sensory play.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY473299 Local authority Kent Inspection number 1122202 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 3 - 8 Total number of places 26 Number of children on roll 15 Name of registered person Grace Isaya Tarmo

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 13 November 2017 Telephone number 01843298661

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Little Star Day Care Nursery registered in 2014. The nursery operates from a community building in Cliftonville, Margate, Kent. The nursery is open Monday to Friday between 8am and 6pm, for most of the year. The provider receives funding to provide free early education for children aged two, three and four years. The provider is also the nursery manager and is qualified at level 5. She employs three other members of staff. Of these, two hold a relevant early years qualification at level 3 and one at level 2.

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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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