Childminder in Central Bedfordshire

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 22 March 2023, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements. Following the inspection we served a welfare requirements notice on 30 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 provide Ofsted with the required information regarding new assistants so that suitability checks can be completed before they start working directly with children

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n ensure that assistants receive appropriate induction into their roles and have access to relevant training so that they can provide children with quality learning and developmental experiences

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n ensure all records are easily accessible and available for inspection

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n ensure staffing arrangements are effective and enable adults to engage in high-quality interactions to meet children's learning and development needs and support their understanding of positive interactions with one another.

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On 11 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 in the welfare requirements notice. We found that the provider had not addressed all of the actions raised in the welfare requirements notice. The provider had records, such as a current valid paediatric first-aid certificate, available and had provided Ofsted with the required information regarding new assistants so that suitability checks could be started. However, the assistants were found to be working directly with children and having unsupervised contact without their suitability being cleared. Additionally, other actions raised had not yet been satisfactorily addressed. As a result, a further welfare requirements notice was served on 3 May 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

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n ensure that assistants receive appropriate induction into their roles and have access to relevant training so that they can provide children with quality learning and development experiences

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n ensure staffing arrangements are effective and enable adults to engage in high-quality interactions to meet children's learning and development needs

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n ensure that people who Ofsted have not yet deemed suitable are not included in ratio and do not have unsupervised contact with children.

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On 10 May 2023, the provider notified us of their wish to resign their registration. They are no longer a registered childcare provider.

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