Childminder in Lancashire

Overall effectiveness Inadequate

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

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The provision is inadequate

A recent failure of the childminder to implement her risk assessment and safeguarding policy compromises children's safety and well-being. In relation to children's learning and development, the curriculum is not designed clearly enough to build on what children already know and can do. Therefore, children do not gain the most learning from some activities. Nevertheless, children acquire some useful skills, which prepare them for school. Twice a week, children join with the children of other childminders at a local group. This helps them to develop confidence to interact with others in larger groups. A range of activities and outings support children's physical development and their understanding of nature.

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The provision is inadequate

Overall, children are learning to behave well. In the childminder's home, they play happily alongside each other. Children sit together at lunchtime and learn to use good manners when eating. Children communicate confidently. The childminder encourages children's speaking skills and introduces new words to their vocabulary. Children develop strong literacy skills. They keenly use a range of pencils and pens to draw and write. They listen attentively to stories read by the childminder. They learn that books hold information. For example, encouraged and supported by the childminder, they look in a book to find the names of the toy cars they are playing with. In other stories, they talk about characters being sad and mean, which helps them to identify different emotions.

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need to do better?

n The childminder has failed to notify Ofsted of a significant incident. This is a breach of requirements. Also, the registration certificate is not displayed at the setting. This is also a breach of requirements, however, it has minimal impact on the quality of provision. n Before children start, the childminder obtains some useful information from parents about their children's needs and interests. She uses this information well to help children to settle in and to build their interests into activities. The childminder talks with parents about the day's activities as they collect their child. She also exchanges some information about their children's development through an electronic system. However, for some children, the information obtained before they start and to be ongoing is not sufficiently detailed to promote continuity in children's learning and development. n Children have a secure relationship with the childminder. The childminder is

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need to do better?

aware of children's individual needs and routines. She recognises when children are tired and enables them to rest with their comforters from home, which helps them to feel emotionally secure. She provides meals which meet their dietary needs. n The childminder encourages children to behave well. However, recently, she

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24 February 2022 failed to consider how her behaviour and interactions with others has an impact on children's safety and learning. n Children listen to some stories and enjoy activities which link to calendar events. At Chinese New Year, children made a dragon from hand prints and tasted noodles, rice and prawn crackers. For Valentine's Day, children made a card and a heart using glitter and paint. Discussions about these and other activities are beginning to raise children's awareness of their culture and those of others. n The childminder skilfully includes numbers and counting in children's play, which helps to support their mathematical knowledge and skills. Children count the books as they stack them. They match their toy cars to those pictured in a book and recognise the numbers printed on them. They learn about shapes as they park their cars in bays made from building blocks. n The childminder provides a range of opportunities for children to learn about

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healthy eating and oral health. Children talk about how to care for their teeth while playing imaginatively with a crocodile puppet. On visits to local shops, children buy healthy items, such as milk, bread and fruit for their snacks. They learn how fruit grows, for example, when they help to pick raspberries, blackberries and apples. They look closely at different fruit and vegetables when tasting them or printing with them during events, such as Harvest time. n Children meet with another childminder and her minded children to go for walks in the local woods and in the grounds of a local hall. Children learn about nature and develop their knowledge and understanding of the world as they look at growing things, such as crocus. They look closely at tree bark as they do rubbings. They follow a nature trail regularly to look at and identify minibeasts.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

Recently, the childminder failed to fully consider the needs of children and adequately supervise them when on an outing to a public place. This placed children at risk. Following this event, she did not follow her safeguarding procedures to report the incident. The childminder recognises that she has not refreshed her safeguarding knowledge recently. She has identified aspects of safeguarding where she can increase her knowledge. However, she knows the signs that may indicate a child is at risk of harm and has procedures to report concerns.

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Due date

24 February 2022 ensure that children are adequately supervised to ensure their safety when on outings 17/03/2022

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Due date

implement a policy, and procedures, to safeguard children, which is in line with the guidance and procedures of the local authority 17/03/2022

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Due date

improve professional development to raise the quality of education and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding issues 17/03/2022

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Due date

implement a curriculum that builds on what children know and can do. 17/03/2022

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should:

n exchange more-detailed information about children's abilities with their parents before they start and that it is ongoing to support continuity in children's learning.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY321549 Local authority Lancashire Inspection number 10226676 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 7 Date of previous inspection 21 November 2018

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2006 and lives in Wesham, Preston. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Thursday and from 7.20am to 4pm on Friday, except for family holidays and bank holidays. She provides funded early education for three- and four-year-old children. She holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 3.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the provider received since the COVID-19 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 We carried out this inspection as a result of a risk assessment, following information we received about this provider. n The inspector had a tour of the childminder's home and held discussions to gain an understanding of how the early years provision and the curriculum are organised. n A joint observation was carried out by the inspector and the childminder. n The inspector held discussions with the childminder. She looked at relevant documentation, such as evidence of the suitability of household members. n The inspector spoke to some children and parents during the inspection and took account of their views.

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Inspection activities

24 February 2022 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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