Childminder in Milton Keynes

Inspection date 26 March 2019 Previous inspection date 6 January 2016

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Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires improvement

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement

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Outcomes for children Requires improvement

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This is a provision that requires improvement

n The childminder has not fully considered ways to review her assistants' ongoing performance and professional development to raise the quality of teaching. n The childminder and one assistant do not hold valid first-aid qualifications. The childminder ensures that another assistant with a valid qualification is present at all times to minimise the risk to children. n The procedures for obtaining parents' consent to administer medication to children are sometimes inconsistent. n Self-evaluation is not fully effective. The childminder does not actively reflect on her practice and identify breaches of requirements which compromise children's welfare. n The arrangements for monitoring sleeping children are not fully effective. Although children sleep where the childminder can hear them, noise levels are high, on occasion, making monitoring more difficult. The childminder and her assistants minimise the risk

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This is a provision that requires improvement

to children by checking them regularly. n On occasion, older children are not sufficiently challenged in their learning and adults do things for them which they are capable of doing themselves.

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It has the following strengths

n The childminder and her assistants teach children how to manage their self-care needs, such as washing their hands and learning to use the toilet. n Overall, children make typical progress from their starting points. They generally enjoy their time at the childminder's setting.

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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 complete and maintain an appropriate paediatric first-aid qualification 01/05/2019

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

ensure that written parental permission is obtained before giving medicines to children. 01/04/2019

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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 improve the effectiveness of self-evaluation and help to identify and address areas for improvement n improve further the arrangements for monitoring sleeping children n provide even more challenge for older children and give them more opportunities to practise their own skills to help to extend their learning. n review the effectiveness of the assistants' practice and their ongoing training and development needs more robustly, in order to improve the quality of teaching practice

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

n The inspector had a tour of the parts of the home that children use. n The inspector checked evidence of the childminder's and her assistants' training and suitability. She looked at relevant documentation and evidence of suitability of persons living in the household. n The inspector spoke to the childminder and her assistants at relevant points during the inspection. She sampled documentation, including policies, procedures and assessments of children's learning. n The inspector completed a joint evaluation of an activity with the childminder and discussed their findings. n The inspector took account of the written views of parents.

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Effectiveness of leadership and management requires improvement

The childminder has a positive attitude to improving her provision. However, since the last inspection, she has not identified weaknesses in her practice. For example, she does not have rigorous procedures for administering prescription medicines and she has not maintained valid first-aid qualifications. Nevertheless, safeguarding is effective. The childminder and her assistants understand their responsibility to protect children from harm. They know what to do and who to contact if they have a concern about a child's welfare. The childminder does not support and coach her assistants well. She does not monitor and supervise their performance and promote professional development to help to raise the quality of teaching.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

The childminder tracks children's progress. For instance, she monitors observations of children's learning regularly and compares the progress children make in different areas. This helps her to identify any gaps in children's learning. However, the quality of teaching is inconsistent. At times, older children are not suitably challenged to help them to extend their skills. For example, the assistant invites children to join an activity to develop their hand muscles. However, she prepares all resources and does not give older children the opportunity to practise their own skills, such as drawing, cutting and labelling their creations. Where teaching is better, she follows children's interests and helps them to extend their ideas. This is demonstrated when children play in the mud kitchen. They stir and fill up containers with sand and water. The assistant interacts with the children and talks to them, helping to provide a storyline for their play. She shows

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment requires improvement

children how to use the equipment. Children continue their learning, mixing ingredients together and making 'pancakes'.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare require improvement

The weaknesses with regard to expired first-aid qualifications and some aspects of record-keeping, demonstrate that the childminder does not have fully effective procedures in place. Nevertheless, the childminder and her assistants are positive role models and children are well behaved. The childminder develops positive partnerships with parents when children begin at the setting. She talks to them about children's care routines and preferences and follows these when children start. This helps children to form positive attachments. The childminder shares progress information with parents regularly and she invites them to share children's achievements from home in daily communication books.

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Outcomes for children require improvement

Children learn some of the skills they need to prepare them for school. For example, they join in singing action songs during group activities. They listen to stories with close concentration. Children explore toys, lifting and closing flaps to see what is hiding underneath. They engage in imaginary play with each other, talking to each other to extend their play. They buy food and then prepare it in the house with their friends.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY486214 Local authority Milton Keynes Inspection number 10064866 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register Day care type Childminder Age range of children 0 - 10 Total number of places 18 Number of children on roll 18 Date of previous inspection 6 January 2016

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Registers

The childminder registered in 2015. She lives in Milton Keynes. The childminder works with three assistants, two of whom hold appropriate childcare qualifications at level 3. The childminder offers care Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 6.30pm for most of the year. She accepts funding for the provision of free education for children aged two, three and four years.

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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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