Childminder EY332283

Inspection date 19 December 2018 Previous inspection date 17 December 2014

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This inspection: Good 2

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

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This provision is good

n The childminder and her co-childminders meet regularly to share ideas and to enable them to provide consistent learning and support to the children. n The spacious environment is planned well to ensure children have plenty of space to move around indoors and outside. n The childminder promotes children's communication and language skills well. She listens carefully to them and introduces new words to name objects and to describe how things feel. This helps her to extend children's vocabulary effectively. n The childminder encourages children's growing independence. For example, even the youngest children practise pouring their own drinks at meal and snack times. n The key-person system is sometimes not as effective as possible at focusing on the needs of individual children. n The childminder does not consistently consider the children's ages and stages of development when planning activities, to ensure they are all fully engaged.

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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 strengthen the key-person approach to target the support for individual children as precisely as possible n review the organisation of some activities to help ensure they consistently reflect the age and stage of the children taking part.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

Inspection activities n The inspector spoke to the childminder and her co-childminders at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspector spoke to the children and to some parents and grandparents. She also took account of parents' written views and questionnaires. n The inspector carried out joint observations with the childminder and discussed her assessments of practices. n The inspector viewed a range of documentation, including some samples of policies and procedures. n The inspector observed adult and child interactions during play and routine activities.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

The childminder works very closely with her co-childminders. They regularly reflect on the provision and agree on how they can improve their practices to further support children's care and learning. For example, they have all adopted a new method to document children's progress to make it easier to assess at a glance. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has a good understanding of safeguarding matters and knows how to protect children in her care. She has attended recent training to refresh her safeguarding knowledge and keep it up to date. Parents are very happy with the care provided and are looking forward to their younger children also attending.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

Parents contribute information about what their child can do when they start. The childminder uses this information as a starting point to help her make assessments of how children are progressing in her care. She makes regular observations of the children to accurately assess their ongoing development and shares this progress with parents. The childminder has a gentle and caring approach to the children. She interacts well with them to engage them in their play. She joins them while they are having a tea party with their dolls and enthusiastically joins in by having a pretend cup of tea. She helps the children select materials to stick onto a cut-out Christmas tree and sensitively guides them where to place the glue to decorate the tree.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

Children feel very secure with the childminder. They approach her for cuddles when they are tired. The childminder helps children to understand how to keep healthy. For example, she encourages them to blow their own nose and dispose of the tissue correctly. Children know they must wash their hands before they eat and happily go to the bathroom to get ready for their lunch. They are very caring and respectful to each other. Older children try to help the youngest ones open their Christmas cards and know they must be quiet when their younger friends are settling down to sleep. Children have access to a large garden to be physically active. They choose from a range of activities; for example, they decide to play on the slide, build an obstacle course or throw a football.

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Outcomes for children are good

All children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, are making good progress and are developing skills to help prepare them for their future learning, such as when they go to school. For example, they are developing good social skills. They sit together at mealtimes and say 'please' and 'thank you' to the children who bring them their food. Older children are beginning to recognise their written names. They identify the first letters of their names on the Christmas cards and hand them to their friends. Younger children practise their first words when they say 'hello' into the toy telephone.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY332283 Local authority Southend-on-Sea Inspection number 10069758 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childminder Age range of children 0 - 4 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 18 Date of previous inspection 17 December 2014

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2006 and works in the home of another registered childminder in Thorpe Bay, Essex. She operates all year round from 7am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, except bank holidays and family holidays.

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Registers

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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