Childminder in Barnet

Summary of outcome

All early years providers must meet the legal requirements in the Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage, which you can find at 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 30 March 2023, we carried out an inspection and found the childminder was not meeting some of these requirements.

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Summary of outcome

The report and inspection outcome will be published in due course. Following the inspection, we served a welfare requirements notice on 31 March 2023. This is a legal notice that requires the provider to take the actions below within the timescales set out. The provider will be able to give parents further information about this.

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n develop a sound and up-to-date knowledge of all aspects of safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures, including procedures to follow if an allegation is made against yourself or a member of your household

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n implement an effective professional development system to help identify and address gaps in practice and teaching skills, to improve the quality of learning experiences for children and help move the overall quality of the provision to consistently good levels

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n ensure that each child's care is tailored to meet their individual needs by improving your knowledge of what each child understands and needs to know next so that they can make progress in their learning journey

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n develop appropriate behaviour management strategies so that these do not involve unnecessary physical interventions

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n ensure that there are effective health and safety arrangements in place, with particular attention to the supervision of children

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n ensure effective risk assessment systems are in place to identify and remove or minimise risks n keep accurate attendance records

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Summary of outcome

On 20 April 2023, we carried out a regulatory visit. The focus of the visit 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 childminder had developed a better understanding of the appropriate child protection agencies to contact if an allegation is made against the childminder or a member of her household. The childminder demonstrated that they were working with the local authority and other agencies to identify and undertake relevant professional development opportunities to improve their practice. We found that the childminder had developed their understanding of what each child understands and needs to learn next to help children make progress in their individual learning journey. The childminder is beginning to develop appropriate behaviour management strategies. The childminder took steps to identify and reduce hazards within their home through a more robust risk assessment process. The childminder demonstrated an improved understanding of the requirements with regards to the supervision of children. They had developed further

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strategies to make sure that children are always in sight and/or hearing of them. The childminder had improved their risk assessment process. They reviewed all resources to ensure they are age appropriate for child minded children and are in good working order. The childminder improved their processes for recording children's attendance and now records the exact time that children arrive at and leave the premises.

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

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