Cristina Prepelita

Overall effectiveness Requires improvement

The quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision requires improvement

The childminder is caring and kind towards children and they have formed close bonds with her. Some of the children have returned to the childminder after a long period of being at home due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. Children are settled and confident within the childminder's home. They have access to a good range of toys and resources and choose for themselves what they want to do next. The childminder knows the children well. She supports children who speak English as an additional language effectively and translates into home languages if some children need help. Since registration, the childminder has completed some courses to support her professional development. For example, she has completed behaviour management training. Children play well together, sharing and taking turns. The childminder gives clear explanations and deals with any minimal disruptions sensitively. However, the childminder does not always give children

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The provision requires improvement

correct information about people's roles in the community. Overall, children's behaviour and attitudes to learning are good, although this shows that the teaching is not supporting children's understanding of the world as well as possible.

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need to do better?

n The childminder is currently caring for more children in the early years age range than requirements allow and has no reasonable explanation for this breach. However, this has been occasionally and has not significantly had an impact on the care of the children. n The childminder provides a safe and secure environment in the home, but has not identified the potential risks to children's safety when they go on outings. In particular, she has not considered fully the impact of children's safety outside the home when caring for a number of young children. However, the childminder demonstrated how she can put this right immediately, therefore, significantly reducing the risks. n Children have developed good attachments with the childminder, this helps them to build on their social skills. They are happy, kind and friendly and frequently give the childminder and each other hugs. Overall, children listen to the

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need to do better?

childminder and follow her instructions, for example, they help to tidy away the toys before lunch. n The childminder is keen to ensure that children have stimulating learning experiences. She plans a broad range of activities based around the children's interests. This shows the childminder understands what she wants the children to learn. Children learn about caring for their teeth as they brush away the bad decay on pictures of teeth. However, the childminder does not use questioning and comments to best effect during focused activities, to support children's language development to the fullest. n Overall, the childminder supports children's communication and language

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need to do better?

7 June 2021 development generally well. The childminder talks with the children and asks questions as they play, however, she does not notice that younger children are often not given the chance to respond as the most able and older children answer for them. This does not enable the younger children's speaking to fully develop and demonstrates the childminder's teaching skills are not at a consistently good level. n The childminder supports children's good health well. She provides home cooked meals and snacks of fruit. Children take part in helping to plant various vegetables and fruit in the garden and learn about how to care for the plants and help to pick them when ripe. n The childminder obtains children's starting points in their learning from discussions with parents and through her own observations. She uses relevant guidance to support her to assess the children's development and build on their

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need to do better?

next steps for learning. n The childminder encourages children's independence well. Children show a good awareness of their own personal care needs and understand why washing their hands is important. They are competent in self-care skills and put their shoes on before going out in the garden. This helps support children's future skills when they move on to school. Children enjoy playing in the outdoor area. They enjoy playing ball and excitedly go up and down the small slide. These experiences support children's physical development well. n The childminder works in partnership with parents effectively. Parents comment positively about the childminder and say she knows their children very well. The childminder provides verbal feedback every day and sends photographs of their children throughout the day. This good communication helps support children's individual needs.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder keeps her safeguarding training up to date to ensure she a good understanding of child protection and wider safeguarding issues. She has a good knowledge of the signs and symptoms that may indicate a child to be at risk and knows who to report any concerns to. Overall, she provides a safe home environment, and maintains most required documents, such as accident records. However, she does not maintain a record of the children's attendance, as required. The childminder spoke about how she can correct this quickly, therefore, reducing any significant impact to children's welfare.

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Due date

7 June 2021 ensure that the ratio requirements of the early years foundation stage are maintained and that no more than three children in the early years age range are cared for at any one time 28/06/2021

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Due date

maintain a daily record of the names of the children being cared for and their hours of attendance while at the setting 28/06/2021

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Due date

improve the risk assessment of outings to ensure this identifies and minimises all potential risks and includes the consideration of adult: child ratios. 28/06/2021

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should:

n broaden the opportunities for training and development, in particular to focus on how to provide good quality interaction to support early language development n support children to understand about the roles of people in the community.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY556041 Local authority Harrow Inspection number 10175089 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childminder

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inspection

Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 5 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2018. She lives in Harrow in London. She operates weekdays between 8am and 6pm all year except for bank holidays and family holidays.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the setting received since the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The inspector looked at children's records and a range of other documents, including policies and procedures. n The childminder spoke to the inspector at convenient times during the inspection. n The childminder discussed her teaching practice with the inspector. n Parents sent letters which the inspector reviewed in order to obtain their views on the service the childminder provides. n The inspector viewed the areas of the childminder's home that children use. n The inspector observed the quality of teaching and assessed the impact this has on children's learning and development.

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Inspection activities

7 June 2021 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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