Childminder EY440548

Overall effectiveness Inadequate

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Requires improvement

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The provision is inadequate

The childminder does not have a good enough understanding of the safeguarding and welfare requirements to protect children from harm. She does not make sure that she maintains records for children accurately. Although she has written policies for safeguarding and information about how and when to share information with other professionals or agencies, she does not understand when she must do this to ensure continuity in children's safety and well-being.

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The provision is inadequate

The childminder supports children's learning and development well. Children have access to a wide range of toys and resources and make confident choices about what they want to play with. They enjoy experimenting in the outdoor area and test out their physical skills as they jump off a low-level slide, supervised well by the childminder.

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The provision is inadequate

Children behave well. They listen to the childminder as she reminds them to use 'kind hands' rather than snatching toys from one another. They follow instruction well, readily tidying away the train track before getting out the cars and garage, and share the cars with their friends.

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The provision is inadequate

Children enjoy imaginative play with the baby dolls. They show kindness and care as they strap the doll into a pretend car seat, then carefully cover them with a blanket, telling the adults 'shh'. They nod when asked if 'baby is asleep' and say 'shh' again.

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need to do better?

n The childminder knows children well and monitors their achievements effectively, so she can see what they need to learn next. She identifies gaps in children's learning and puts in support to help them achieve. All children, including those who have special educational needs and/or disabilities, make good progress in their learning. n The childminder has worked closely with local pre-schools to support children's learning and emotional well-being as they move to new settings. However, she does not recognise the need to share relevant information about children with other health professionals. This compromises children's care and safety. n Children explore the readily accessible resources and toys, finding the right pieces to fix the train track. They experiment with the magnets on the train carriages to work out how they join up to make a train. The childminder supports their mathematical development as she helps them to count the

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carriages, and they recognise that they have four in total. n Older children share well with younger ones. For example, when playing with the toy cars, older children hand over the blue car to the younger ones and let them

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13 September 2019 take turns pushing the cars down the ramp on the toy garage. They love the praise they get from the childminder for showing 'good sharing'. n Outdoors, children manage risks and challenge themselves. They run around the space available to them and negotiate safe pathways when using ride-on toys. n The childminder supports children's communication well. She offers them new words to describe items, asks questions and helps them to think and solve problems. n Although the childminder has some records for the children, these are not always completed thoroughly to include details of all those involved in the care of the children or full contact details for parents. This is a breach of the requirements and compromises children's welfare. n The childminder builds good relationships with parents and shares information with them about what their children are learning. However, she does not recognise when she may need to share information with others to keep children

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safe and maintain continuity in their care and well-being. n The childminder encourages children to become independent and care for their play spaces. She praises them when they help put the toys away ready for lunch and wash their hands before eating.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

Records for children are incomplete. For example, sometimes children's full names, date of birth, contact details for parents and who needs to be contacted in an emergency are not written down. In addition, the childminder does not consistently record who has parental responsibility for children. This compromises children's safety. The childminder does not understand when her duty of care to protect children from harm, or to support their personal development effectively, requires the sharing of relevant information with others. Also, there are occasions when she has omitted to record the times when children are at her setting. These are breaches to the early years foundation stage (EYFS) requirements and do not help to ensure that the childminder is keeping children safe.

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Due date

13 September 2019 ensure that safeguarding roles and responsibilities are fully understood, including knowing how and when to share information with other agencies and professionals in accordance with the EYFS statutory framework and the Local Safeguarding Children Board procedures, to help ensure the needs of all children are met and they are kept safe 02/10/2019

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Due date

make sure that accurate information about individual children is recorded fully to include the child's name, date of birth, times they attend the setting and who has parental responsibility for them, to ensure their well-being and safety. 02/10/2019

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY440548 Local authority Wiltshire Inspection number 10097297 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 3 to 7 Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 8 Date of previous inspection 29 January 2019

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2011 and lives in the Purton area of Swindon. She operates all year round, from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector observed the quality of teaching indoors and outdoors. n The inspector considered the views of parents through written testimonials. n A joint evaluation was carried out of the activities provided for the children. n The inspector discussed the concerns that had prompted the inspection and looked at samples of the childminder's paperwork, including children's contact details, registers of attendance and safeguarding policies, to see if she was meeting the EYFS requirements effectively. n The inspector talked with children and the childminder at appropriate times during the inspection.

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Inspection activities

We carried out this inspection 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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Inspection activities

13 September 2019 13 September 2019 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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