Happy Little Angels Day Nursery Ltd

Inspection of Happy Little Angels Day Nursery Ltd Croydon Unitarian Free Christian Church, The Croydon Flyover, Croydon CR0 1ER

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Overall effectiveness Inadequate

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

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The provision is inadequate

Children's good health and hygiene are not prioritised well enough at this nursery. In addition, children receive poor-quality care and education. Children's welfare cannot be assured. They do not benefit from a challenging and ambitious curriculum to help them to make the best possible progress from when they first start. Occasionally, staff engage with children positively. However, overall, staff's interactions are extremely limited, which has an impact on children's learning and development. Staff do not always help to extend children's learning to a good level.

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The provision is inadequate

Generally, children behave well, despite the lack of resources and opportunities available to them to meet their individual needs and interests. However, children learn to communicate with each other by screaming or throwing toys. Overall, children become disengaged and bored. Generally, they seek out and find their own learning. Children do not demonstrate positive attitudes to their learning due to staff's ineffective teaching skills and limited planned experiences.

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The provision is inadequate

Despite these weaknesses, children quickly settle when they first arrive. Staff greet children on arrival to help to promote a sense of belonging. Children show that they feel safe and emotionally secure. They enjoy outdoor play to help to promote their physical skills. Staff supervise children, such as when they excitedly slide down a slide and confidently balance on crates, to help to keep them safe.

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need to do better?

n Leadership and management is ineffective, despite the manager's positive attitude and vision for providing quality, inclusive care and education for all children. The manager does not successfully circulate these values among staff. She does not monitor the quality of practice and provision well enough. The quality of care and education for children is inadequate. Furthermore, the manager does not ensure that the required documents are available on request during the inspection. This is a breach of requirements. n Children's welfare is significantly compromised. Children are not provided with nutritional and balanced meals to help to promote their good health. The premises and equipment are not organised effectively. Children have extremely limited toys and resources available, particularly in the pre-school and toddler room. This means that children's individual needs, experiences and the opportunities available to them are inadequate.

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n Staff carry out regular assessments to monitor children's development. However, the manager does not ensure that staff complete the progress check for children aged between two and three years. This is a breach of requirements. n Children's learning that takes place is mostly incidental. On occasion, children have opportunities to strengthen their small-hand muscles and practise early

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3 April 2023 mark-making skills. They are eager to take part. For example, children make random marks as they paint on large pieces of paper. However, staff quickly remove these activities, without any warning to children. Overall, the implementation and impact from experiences is extremely limited. n The manager successfully explains the skills that she wants children to learn. However, the very poorly planned curriculum does not capture children's interests or stages of development. Even though staff know children well, they do not always recognise what children need to learn next. Furthermore, staff do not fully understand the expectations for children's learning. n The key-person approach is not established well enough to help to meet children's individual needs. On the day of inspection and during the Easter holiday period, key staff are not available, in particular in the toddler room. This means that young children do not have a consistent and settled relationship with

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their key person. n Occasionally, staff help to promote children's good hygiene practices. For example, before mealtimes, children are encouraged to wash their hands. However, this is not consistent. For example, when children go to the toilet, there is not always toilet roll available for them to use. n Staff do not engage with children in a positive and meaningful way. Their interactions are poor and do not help to promote children's communication and language development to a good level. Overall, children copy one another and learn to communicate by screaming at each other. n The manager has arrangements in place to help to support children with identified special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Nevertheless, some children who have gaps in their learning and development do not benefit from swift early intervention to help them to make the best possible progress. n Parents were very happy with the care of their children during the COVID-19

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pandemic. They comment that they were able to continue work as essential key workers. Parents welcome ideas to try at home to help to continue children's learning, as well as support to help to toilet train young children.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager does not assure children's safety. This is because breaches in requirements have a significant impact on children's safety and welfare. The manager and staff have undertaken safeguarding training to help to keep their safeguarding knowledge current. They have a good understanding of the different types of abuse a child may be at risk from. The manager and staff understand their responsibility to report their concerns to external agencies. The manager and most staff are trained in paediatric first aid.

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Due date

ensure that documents are easily accessible and ready for inspection 15/05/2023

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make sure that the meals provided are healthy and nutritious 15/05/2023

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ensure that the environment is planned effectively and there is sufficient and quality equipment to meet children's individual needs 15/05/2023

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complete a written progress check when children are aged between two and three years and share this with parents 15/05/2023

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design an education programme to meet the individual needs of children to ensure that all children are consistently challenged to help them make the best possible progress 15/05/2023

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ensure that an effective key-person approach consistently meets children's individual needs 15/05/2023

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make sure that children's good hygiene practices are consistently considered 15/05/2023

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support staff to access training to help to improve the intent and teaching of the curriculum 15/05/2023

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ensure that children who have gaps in their learning and development receive intervention at the earliest opportunity. 15/05/2023

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2618544 Local authority Croydon Inspection number 10281050 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 70 Number of children on roll 62 Name of registered person Happy Little Angels Day Nursery Ltd

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reference number

Telephone number 02087260510 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Happy Little Angels Day Nursery Ltd registered in 2021. The nursery is located in the London Borough of Croydon. The nursery is open for most of the year, from 7.30am to 6.30pm, Monday to Friday. It employs 12 members of staff. Of these, seven members of staff hold a qualification at level 2 or above. The nursery provides funded early education places 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 staff and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises. n The manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about the curriculum and what they want children to learn. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The special educational needs coordinator, who is also the manager, spoke to the inspector about how they support children with SEND. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning. n The inspector carried out joint observations of group activities with the manager.

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n Parents shared their views of the setting with the inspector. n The inspector looked at relevant documentation and reviewed evidence of the suitability of staff working in the nursery.

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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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