Chapeltown Community Nursery

Chapeltown Community Nursery Reginald Street, Chapeltown, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS7 3HL

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Inspection date 20 September 2018 Previous inspection date 19 January 2015

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This inspection: Inadequate 4

Previous inspection: Good 2 Effectiveness of leadership and management Inadequate 4 Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 2 Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate 4 Outcomes for children Good 2

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The provision is inadequate

n Managers do not ensure that staff have a secure understanding of current safeguarding policies and procedures. Staff have a poor understanding of wider child protection issues, such as risks to children from extreme views and behaviours. n Managers do not ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to minimise the daily occurring risks to children, both in the setting and on visits and outings. n Staff supervision and performance monitoring are not highly effective. Staff do not receive enough specific support to raise standards consistently. n Managers do not make best use of any of their evaluations to develop targeted plans for further improvement.

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It has the following strengths

n A well-established key-person system ensures that staff form secure relationships with children and foster good parent partnerships. n The manager and staff team have created an exceptionally diverse environment where different cultures and beliefs are valued and celebrated.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and Childcare Register the provider must: Due date train all staff to understand the setting's safeguarding policy and procedure 05/10/2018

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

take all reasonable steps to identify and minimise risks to children. 05/10/2018

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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

n make sure that the arrangements for the supervision and performance management of staff are effective in raising standards n develop self-evaluation to create robust plans that build on current practice and drive continual improvement.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector spoke with the manager, staff and children throughout the inspection. n The inspector completed a joint observation with the manager. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching during activities indoors and outdoors and assessed the impact this has on children's learning. n The inspector held a meeting with the manager. She looked at relevant evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery. n The inspector spoke to a number of parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is inadequate

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective. Although staff are aware of the basic signs and symptoms of abuse and harm, they do not attend regular training to update their knowledge of current child protection policies and procedures. As a result, they have a poor understanding of wider child protection issues, such as children who might be at risk from extreme views and behaviours. This compromises children's welfare. Children have access to a range of resources. However, managers do not consider the potential risks to children both within the setting and when out on visits. While staff are aware of their responsibility to undertake daily risk assessments, they recognise that these do not always take place. Supervision and performance management arrangements for staff are weak. The manager does not have a sharp focus on the professional development of all staff to assist them in raising practice to the

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is inadequate

highest level. Programmes to support staff and develop their skills do not give them precise information about what they need to do to improve their teaching practice further. Although managers hold monthly meetings, they do not make plans to ensure that the nursery makes continual improvements. Self-evaluation lacks rigour and, as a result, continuing progress is not observed.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Children attending the nursery are settled and confident in their surroundings. They access a range of play activities indoors and outdoors. Staff have strong relationships with their key children. They are attentive and what they know about them is accurate and meaningful. Some staff use communication to promote children's language skills appropriately. For example, as children play with the dough they introduce new words, such as 'tarantula' as the children take turns to make the components of a spider. All children engage in frequent story, song and rhyme times. However, at times, staff do not notice when children are disengaged. Adult-focused activities are sometimes very prescribed, which hinders children's imagination and creativity.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are inadequate

Weaknesses within safeguarding practice mean that children's welfare is not consistently promoted adequately. Furthermore, documentation that helps to promote children's safety and well-being is not used effectively. Children have free access to the outdoor area which provides space to be physically active, and they master skills, such as riding a two-wheeled pedal bicycle. Key persons get to know children and their families, and this helps to support attachments which, in turn, help children to settle quickly. Parents are informed about their children's day and are involved in the progress check between the age of two and three years.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children make progress in their learning, overall. They make choices in their play, and children's behaviour is generally good. Children thoroughly embrace learning about the similarities and differences of their friends, and this has a positive impact on their understanding of the community in which they live. For example, the nursery takes part in its own mini 'carnival' and parents talk highly of how important these events are to their children's experiences. Children have the opportunity to develop some of the key skills they need for school. For example, staff encourage children to recognise their name card, change their shoes independently and carry their own tray at lunch.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 319349 Local authority Leeds Inspection number 10070915 Type of provision Full day care Registers Early Years Register Day care type Childcare on non-domestic premises Age range of children 2 - 4 Total number of places 30 Number of children on roll 25 Name of registered person Chapeltown Community Nursery

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Date of previous inspection 19 January 2015 Telephone number 0113 2374696

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Chapeltown Community Nursery registered in 1973 and is run by a management committee. The nursery employs seven members of childcare staff, all of whom hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3 or above. The nursery opens Monday to Friday from 8am until 6pm all year round. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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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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