Childminder in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Inspection date 2 May 2019 Previous inspection date Not applicable

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This inspection: Good 2

Previous inspection: Not applicable 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 supports her assistants well and ensures they understand their responsibilities. She meets with them regularly to review the learning opportunities they provide, and discuss how to extend children's learning. n Children are eager to learn. The childminder and her assistants introduce all areas of learning into children's play, and praise their achievements. n Children make good progress in their development. The childminder provides good challenges for older children to help prepare them for the move to school. n The childminder and her assistants have a strong partnership with parents. They keep them well informed about children's care and learning, and parents appreciate the flexible and good-quality care their children receive. n The environment does not actively and positively reflect cultural diversity, home languages and disability to enable all children to feel valued and to help them better

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This provision is good

understand how to respect differences. n The childminder has not fully established secure partnerships with other early years settings children attend in order to share information about children's care and development.

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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 create a learning environment where cultural diversity is celebrated to help children to respect and value difference n improve the partnerships with other settings children attend in order to share information about children's learning, development and care and provide better consistency.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector gained the views of parents through their written comments. n The inspector spoke to the childminder and her assistant at appropriate times during the inspection about their practice, training and safeguarding knowledge. n The inspector observed children as they played and discussed their progress with the childminder. n The inspector sampled a range of documentation, including supervision notes, children's development records and the childminder's policies.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management is good

The childminder ensures that she and her assistants have a clear understanding about how to keep children safe. They have all completed safeguarding training and know what to do if they have a concern about a child in their care. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder meets with her assistants every week to discuss and review children's progress and what they need to learn next. This also provides a good opportunity to evaluate practice and make ongoing improvements. The team keeps up to date with its professional development and uses what it has learned to benefit the children. For example, following training, the childminder has reviewed and improved many aspects of the available resources and play opportunities, and now provides more sensory activities.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is good

The childminder plans activities she knows children will enjoy and they spend much of their time on outings to the beach, public gardens, parks and farms. She and her assistants encourage the children to count steps as they climb and to notice words, numbers and shapes in the environment. In the home, children enjoy matching games and completing puzzles using a touchscreen computer. The childminder adapts the difficulty of the game to each child's ability, providing sufficient challenge while enabling them to achieve. The childminder and her assistants encourage children's developing language skills well. For example, as children play together to make a train track, an assistant introduces new vocabulary, such as 'curved' and 'straight'.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are good

The childminder and her assistants are good role models for children's behaviour. Consequently, children are polite and are kind to each other. When one child notices another looks unhappy, they gently offer a cuddle. The childminder provides children with healthy, home-cooked meals and lunchtime is a very social occasion. Children manage their cutlery well and eat with gusto. The childminder and her assistants offer good emotional support when children need it. The relationships between the adults and children are strong, enabling each child to feel settled and confident.

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Outcomes for children are good

Children make good progress from their starting points and are enthusiastic learners. They experiment with magnetic blocks to make towers, bridges, buildings and cars. Children's enjoyment is evident as they work together to pop all the bubbles from the bubble machine. They learn independence as they choose toys and manage their personal care well. Children learn to share and wait patiently for their turn, developing the skills they need for the next stage of their learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY541347 Local authority Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Inspection number 10089813 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Childminder Age range of children 2 - 8 Total number of places 12 Number of children on roll 12 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2017 and works with assistants, when necessary, from her home in Throop, Bournemouth. She provides care from 7.30am to 6.45pm, five days per week, throughout the year.

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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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