Childminder in Warwickshire

Overall effectiveness Requires improvement

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

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The provision requires improvement

Relationships between the childminder and the children are positive, and children are happy and settled. They behave well and learn to share and take turns. The childminder observes children and assesses their stages of development. However, she does not consistently use what she knows about children to challenge them effectively while they play or support them in expressing their own ideas. Children have access to some toys in the central room of the ground floor provision, but the choice available for them is limited and uninspiring. Children are not reliably challenged in accordance with their different abilities. That said, they develop the necessary skills for future learning in school.

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The provision requires improvement

The emotional needs of babies and the youngest children are met as the childminder provides one-to-one attention. She meets their different care needs effectively, such as how, when and where they prefer to sleep. Older children happily engage in conversation with the childminder and her co-childminders.

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The provision requires improvement

Children learn to manage simple tasks for themselves and develop self-care skills. However, the childminder does not support their independent decision-making about what they want to play with. Children are not invited to choose resources that are stored in other rooms within the premises.

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need to do better?

n The childminder identifies children's stages of development and what she intends for them to learn next. However, in practice she does not effectively implement her plans to promote children's different learning needs so that they all make the best possible progress. n Space is not used effectively to meet children's different learning needs. Children aged from one to four years play in a room where the resources available to them are limited. These include small-world people and animals, wooden blocks and plastic bricks, trains and cars, soft toys and musical instruments. Play materials in other rooms include art and craft and domestic play materials, but the childminder does not offer children the choice to play with them, or to play outside. n The childminder offers some opportunities for children to explore change during baking activities. She asks two of the older children if they would like to join her

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need to do better?

in the kitchen to decorate biscuits. The children know that they need to use sugar and water to make icing. They use their good handling skills to pour water, mix it with icing sugar using a spoon and then spread it onto biscuits with a knife. n The childminder supports children's communication and language development well. She interprets the wants and needs of babies and young children when

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5 January 2022 they communicate through the sounds of their voices and gestures. She repeats back the words that they begin to use and adds a word to encourage them to begin to form sentences. n Children are beginning to understand the differences between themselves and others. However, the childminder does not plan to maximise children's understanding of different families, communities and traditions. n The childminder organises outings for children, for example, to soft-play centres. Part of the daily school run is time spent at the park where they run and practise climbing skills. n Documentation required for the management of the provision is generally well maintained and implemented. However, attendance records do not identify which of the three childminders and two assistants are present each day, and the written safeguarding policy does not fully reflect the information that the childminder shares verbally.

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need to do better?

n Information for parents is provided on a website. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, parents do not enter the premises and so information is shared with them at the entrance each day. This has not had an impact on children settling into the childminder's care. n The childminder's co-childminder holds membership of an association for early years workers. This helps the childminder and her assistants keep up to date with childcare and early years issues.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The childminder completes training to keep her child protection knowledge up to date. She is aware of the signs of abuse and neglect and knows the local referral procedures to follow if she has a concern. The childminder makes sure that the premises are secure so that children cannot leave unsupervised and unwanted visitors cannot gain access. She identifies and appropriately minimises potential risks in the home. The childminder, co-childminders and both assistants keep their safeguarding and paediatric first-aid training up to date.

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Due date

make sure that information gained from observation and assessment is consistently used to challenge children so that every child makes the best possible progress 25/02/2022

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Due date

5 January 2022 improve teaching so that children follow their interests, make independent decisions about where to play and what to play with, and explore materials and find things out for themselves. 25/02/2022

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should:

n build on current practice for helping children to learn about similarities and differences in society and gain a better understanding of cultures and traditions beyond their own n improve documentation to demonstrate how adult-to-child ratios are being met and ensure policies for parents are up to date.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY480862 Local authority Warwickshire Inspection number 10218112 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 18 Number of children on roll 23 Date of previous inspection 13 September 2016

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2014 and operates from a co-childminder's home in Nuneaton. She works part time over the operational hours of 5.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, except for bank holidays. The childminder works with one or two co-childminders, and/or two assistants.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the childminder received since the COVID- 19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the childminder and has taken that into account in her evaluation of the setting. n The childminder and the inspector discussed the childminder's intentions for children's learning. n The inspector spoke to the childminder, two co-childminders and children throughout the inspection. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, and assessed the impact that this was having on children's learning. n The inspector carried out joint observations of group activities with the childminder. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of adults working in the setting. n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises.

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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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