Childcare@Buttershaw Christian Family Centre

Inspection of Childcare@Buttershaw Christian Family Centre Buttershaw Christian Family Centre, The Crescent, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD6 3PZ

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Overall effectiveness Good

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

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The provision is good

Children confidently enter the nursery and benefit from a whole community approach to their care and learning. They play happily in a safe and accessible environment that supports their independence. Children receive a warm and friendly greeting from staff, who they have formed strong attachments to. This helps them to feel secure. Staff support and cheerily distract new children who are a little upset when they arrive, which means they soon settle.

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The provision is good

Children, including those in receipt of additional funding or who have additional needs, make very good progress from their starting points in development on entry. They take part in a wealth of experiences that give them a great start in life and a positive approach to learning, in readiness for going to school. Children behave extremely well and understand expectations. For example, they promptly respond when they hear a drum to indicate tidy-up time.

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The provision is good

Children are familiar with the nursery's routines. For example, two-year-old children help to find their labelled peg to hang up their coats. Older children find their name cards to self-register. They use the hand gel, sited at the 'hygiene station', before helping themselves to a bowl of cereal. Babies and toddlers smile and babble away at nurturing staff, who spontaneously sing songs, shake home-crafted instruments and read simple stories. This builds on their early communication skills.

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n Staff gain important information from parents to support children's emotional well-being as they settle. As part of this, staff carry out home visits for funded two-year-old children and offer stay-and-play sessions. n Staff effectively communicate with parents, for instance, through online platforms and progress meetings. They encourage parents to extend their children's learning, for example through activity packs. Staff provide a lending library to involve parents in supporting children's love of stories and early language. n Staff closely monitor children's development and swiftly identify any emerging concerns. They make timely referrals to other professionals, and put in place effective early intervention strategies to help children to catch up. Staff make effective use of additional funding to improve outcomes for children. n Children in the pre-school rooms are highly motivated and engrossed, as a result

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of staff's high-quality teaching. They delight in staff's interactions, which support their thinking skills. For example, as children make a guitar out of craft resources, staff encourage them to work out how to attach the pipe cleaners that represent the strings. n Staff generally interact well with two-year-old children to build on their learning,

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8 December 2022 for example, as they make dough with them. However, staff do not always recognise when children require more adult support to engage in activities and develop their language skills. Furthermore, staff who are covering are not aware of children's specific next steps in learning, which is necessary to optimise their learning. n Staff help children to develop good physical skills. Babies pull themselves to standing and toddlers use chunky brushes. Two-year-old children enthusiastically join in with action songs and roll, pinch and pat the soft dough. Older children make patterns in dough using vegetable mashers, and focus intently while threading dried pasta onto string. They confidently climb to the top of the grass mound. n Staff provide many opportunities for children to learn essential social skills. For example, they encourage two-year-old children to take turns to mix the dough ingredients. Older children build excellent friendships, for example while playing

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lotto games or engaging in role play with dolls. n Staff support children's early independence exceptionally well. For example, children serve food and pour drinks, put on their coats and choose when to have their snack. Two-year-old children delight in choosing a favourite song from the 'nursery rhyme' board. n Staff instil excellent messages to children about healthy lifestyles. For example, the nursery takes part in numerous oral health initiatives and children brush their teeth using a two-minute timer. Parents take home healthy recipes and can buy low-cost healthy recipe bags. n Staff plan many activities that develop children's awareness of difference. However, they do not consistently represent the diversity of children and the families who attend, within the nursery. n Staff's qualifications, support for their well-being, further training and constant self-evaluation has an overall positive impact. Questionnaires are readily

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available for parents to share their views. These are highly complimentary.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

Leaders implement robust recruitment and vetting procedures to ensure that all staff are suitable to work in the nursery. Staff have regular child protection training. They can identify the possible signs and symptoms of abuse. Staff fully understand who to report their concerns to when they have concerns of a child- protection nature. They work closely with other professionals and safeguarding agencies. This helps to keep children safe from harm. Staff undertake daily risk assessments to ensure that the premises are safe and secure. They closely supervise children, for instance as they use climbing apparatus outdoors. This helps to promote their safety and welfare.

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should:

n strengthen teaching for two-year-old children, so that all staff are fully aware of how to support their individual learning needs, to fully engage them and help them to make the best possible progress n develop the ways in which the nursery represents the children who attend, in order to help them to feel valued and included to the highest level through opportunities to observe and celebrate their own uniqueness.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY276042 Local authority Bradford Inspection number 10229490 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

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inspection

Total number of places 75 Number of children on roll 87 Name of registered person Buttershaw Christian Family Centre Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 01274 690 262 Date of previous inspection 6 January 2017

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Information about this early years setting

Childcare@Buttershaw Christian Family Centre has been operating since 1992. The setting employs 27 members of childcare staff. Of these, all hold appropriate early years qualifications; one is at level 2, 23 are at level 3 and three are at level 5. The nursery opens from Monday to Friday, all year round, excluding bank holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year. Sessions are from 7.45am until 5.45pm. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four- year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the nursery 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 setting. n The inspector held discussions with the management team, including the nominated individual for the organisation. She carried out a learning walk with the nursery managers. This helped the inspector to understand how staff organise the early years provision and the curriculum. n The inspector observed the quality of education across the nursery and assessed the impact of this on children's learning. n The nursery managers and the inspector carried out a joint observation of an activity taking place. n The inspector spoke with children, parents, staff and a visiting professional during the inspection. She also viewed written feedback from parents within questionnaires. n The managers and nominated individual shared various policies and documents

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with the inspector, including those related to the suitability and qualifications of staff.

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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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