Play With Us Childcare Provision Ltd

Summary of outcome

Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills is leading Ofsted's work into how regulated early years and childcare providers in England have delivered child- centred practice and care, within the context of the restrictions placed on society during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

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Summary of outcome

All early years providers must meet the legal requirements in the Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years- foundation-stage-framework--2. If we find that a provider is not meeting the requirements, we can take action to ensure they put matters right.

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Summary of outcome

On 6 September 209, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements. The overall effectiveness of the provision was judged to be not met. The inspection report sets out the actions the provider was asked to take to meet the requirements.

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Summary of outcome

On 11 November 2020, while routine inspections were suspended, we carried out an interim telephone call. The focus of the call was to check whether the provider had met the safeguarding and welfare actions, raised at their last inspection.

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Summary of outcome

We found that the provider now has a policy which covers the use of mobile phones and cameras in the setting as part of her wider safeguarding requirements to ensure children's safety.

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The provider now complete, and updates staff records and their on-going suitability checks to maintain children's safety. All staff, including the manager, understand the policy and procedures to safeguard children, and what actions they must take when there are safeguarding concerns about a child.

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All staff now have an appropriate paediatric first-aid qualification ensuring that there is always a qualified first aider available .

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All records are now organised and easily accessible and available for the purposes of sharing information with parents and carers, social services and Ofsted.

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The registered person is now aware of the requirement to notify Ofsted of any significant changes or events, particularly in relation to any serious accident, illness or injury to, or death of, any child.

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There are systems in place to ensure that children's behaviour is now better managed by staff, in a way that helps children to learn and understand what appropriate behaviour is

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We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare action raised. The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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Publication of compliance action

We aim to ensure that the welfare of children and young people is protected in the services we regulate. The Childcare Act 2006 and accompanying regulations set out our responsibilities to regulate childminders and childcare providers. This includes the enforcement powers we have in relation to those registered providers who do not comply with the requirements for registration.

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Publication of compliance action

We publish details of any actions we take, or the childminder or childcare provider takes to bring about compliance with requirements on our website for a period of five years. For further information please read the Early years compliance handbook which can be found here at www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-provider-non-compliance- action-by-ofsted .

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