Cherub Nursery

Inspection of Cherub Nursery 483 Leads Road, Sutton-on-Hull, Hull HU7 4XT

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Overall effectiveness Inadequate

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

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The provision is inadequate

Leadership and management of the nursery are inadequate. Significant weaknesses continue to emerge due to ineffective monitoring of staff and the manager's practice. As a consequence, children's well-being, safety and the quality of learning and care they receive are significantly compromised. Children are not promptly assigned a key person when they start or when they move rooms within the nursery. This results in some children remaining upset for extended periods as they do not have a secure person with whom to develop a bond. It also results in staff being unable to support children's learning effectively.

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The provision is inadequate

Weaknesses in teaching across the nursery result in children taking part in activities which lack purpose and challenge. For example, during a group activity, pre-school children's focus is quickly lost as the group is too large and the activity is too long. When snack time is mentioned, half of the children completely disengage in the activity, which leads to a disorderly and chaotic environment. Staff report how they are monitoring instances of poor behaviour in the room for two- to three-year-olds and the pre-school room. However, instances of poor behaviour observed during inspection were a result of poorly planned activities which did not challenge the children.

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need to do better?

n The provider and the nominated individual lack knowledge and understanding of early years practice. They are failing to oversee the running of the provision and the manager is not being given enough support and time to lead and manage the provision. As a result, leaders and managers lack the capacity to identify weaknesses and sustain improvements. Staff do not benefit from coaching and support to help improve the quality of their teaching. This is because the manager is not monitoring their teaching practice effectively, which results in significant weaknesses going unnoticed. n While some staff work consistently in each room, other staff work across all rooms to ensure adult-to-child ratios are met. This does not enable a stable and secure environment for children's care or learning. The manager has not ensured staff working with babies hold relevant qualifications. Staff within this room report that they sometimes struggle with their responsibilities to ensure

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need to do better?

children's needs are met. n When children move on to the next room within the nursery, they are not assigned a new key person quickly enough. Information about children's progress is not initially shared and this means children do not benefit from individualised care and learning to meet their needs. n Funding for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is not always used appropriately. Staffing is not always organised to ensure

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need to do better?

24 September 2019 children receive the relevant support they need, which means that these children are not helped to plug the gaps in their development. n While some information is obtained from parents about their children's interests and prior learning, this is not always seen or used by staff to inform an initial assessment of children's development. Staff report that their assessments of children's progress are not up to date and therefore not accurate. The manager identifies children's next steps in learning for staff. However, this results in next steps not always being accurate or updated quickly enough, and staff do not use these to inform their future planning for each child. This hinders children's progress. n Staff provide some enjoyable activities for babies to engage in. For example, babies enjoy sensory play such as exploring paint with their hands. However, as children get older, activities often lack purpose and challenge to support their

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need to do better?

continued progression and development. This results in some instances of children displaying poor behaviour. n Staff fail to organise and use opportunities as they arise to promote children's learning. For example, children over two years old are encouraged to develop independence as they pour their own drinks and serve their own meals. However, at snack time, children are seated at three different tables and staff provide only one chopping board and knife for children to use. This results in discussions with children being limited as staff rush children to chop their chosen fruit. While pre-school children like to sing familiar nursery rhymes, these are often only used to fill time while children are waiting for their food to arrive. These experiences lack challenge and are not used to support children to explore or to think.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

While the manager and staff understand the indicators of abuse and know the procedures to follow if they have concerns about a child, children's overall well- being is not protected. A delay in assigning each child a key person when they first start nursery, results in some children not feeling emotionally safe and secure. While staff try and provide comfort and reassurance for new children, these children remain upset as they are unable to create a bond with an assigned key person. Staff recognise that young children often have access to a range of technology, allowing access to the internet. However, they have failed to consider how to support children to safely use technology.

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Due date

improve staff knowledge of wider safeguarding concerns, in particular supporting children's awareness of online safety 04/10/2019

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ensure all children are assigned a key person so that every child's care and learning are tailored to their individual needs 04/10/2019

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ensure effective deployment of staff so that children benefit from consistency of staff working with them to meet their individual needs and promote their learning 04/10/2019

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ensure at least one member of staff looking after children under two holds a full and relevant qualification at level 3, and at least half of all other staff hold a full and relevant qualification at level 2 04/10/2019

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ensure effective supervisions are carried out to monitor the effectiveness of staff and the manager's practice, and provide appropriate support, coaching and training to promote continuous improvement 04/10/2019

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ensure arrangements are in place to support children with SEND, including using funding appropriately to provide additional support to meet children's individual needs. 04/10/2019

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ensure staff consider the individual needs, interests and stages of development of each child and use this information to plan challenging activities to support all areas of learning 20/12/2019

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24 September 2019 ensure each area of learning and development is implemented through purposeful play experiences which support children to explore, to think about problems and to relate to others 20/12/2019

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ensure staff monitor children's progress effectively from their starting points, using ongoing observations to identify their current levels of achievements. 20/12/2019

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Setting details

Unique reference number 509929 Local authority Kingston Upon Hull City Council Inspection number 10115534 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Full day care Age range of children 0 to 4 Total number of places 66 Number of children on roll 77 Name of registered person Cherub Nurseries and Pre Schools Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01482 820756 Date of previous inspection 5 December 2018

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Information about this early years setting

Cherub Nursery registered in 1993 and is operated by Cherub Nurseries and Pre- Schools Limited. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday all year round, except for bank holidays. Sessions are from 7am until 6pm. The nursery employs 18 members of childcare staff. Of these, 16 hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or above. The nursery receives funding to provide free early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors Melanie Arnold Dawn Woodhouse-Wykes

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Inspection activities

n The manager completed a learning walk with the inspectors, explaining how staff throughout the nursery organise and support children's learning. n The inspectors held a meeting with the manager and observed staff practice throughout the nursery. They also spoke with staff, children and parents at appropriate times during the inspection. n The inspectors sampled a range of documents during the inspection, including staff suitability checks. n One of the inspectors and the manager jointly evaluated staff teaching practice during activities being delivered in the room for two- to three-year-olds.

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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

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