Setting EY417600

Report for childcare on domestic premises

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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 Inadequate

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The provision is good

Children are happy and safe in this nurturing setting. The manager and staff build positive relationships with them. Children feel very comfortable with the staff and really enjoy participating in the many engaging learning opportunities that the staff plan for them. They benefit from the calm and positive manner in which the experienced staff interact with them.

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The provision is good

The manager and staff have high expectations of what children should achieve during their time at the setting. Staff understand the progress that children have made and what their next steps are. They then plan how to support children to reach these next steps. This helps children to make good progress.

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The provision is good

Children behave very well. They understand the clear expectations that staff put in place. Children respond well to the enthusiastic praise staff give them throughout the day. For example, children beam with pride as staff exclaim, 'Wow, you did a fabulous job giving out the mats!' The staff team talk respectfully to each other and model to the children how to use good manners, such as saying please and thank you. This helps children to understand how to interact with their peers.

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need to do better?

n The manager plans an effective curriculum for communication and language. Staff get down to children's level and narrate as they play. They read lots of stories to children. Interactions between staff and children are of high quality. Staff pick up well on what children say and support them to extend their sentences through effective modelling. This means that children progress well in their communication and language development. n The manager and staff carefully consider how to support children in their physical development. Children have lots of opportunities to develop their gross motor skills. Staff take children to local parks and soft-play centres, where they support them to develop their climbing, jumping and balancing. In the garden, children ride trikes and bikes and enjoy playing games such as hide and seek. Staff plan many opportunities to help children to develop their fine motor skills

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and hand-to-eye coordination. For example, children squeeze and roll play dough and enjoy painting. Children make good progress in their physical development. n The manager and staff have a good understanding of the skills that they would like children to achieve in their personal and social development. Staff support children to develop their independence well by encouraging them to have a go at things themselves. For example, young children take their shoes off and blow their nose themselves. This helps them to develop self-care skills. Staff give children responsibility for helping with jobs throughout the day. For example,

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need to do better?

28 September 2023 children help to tidy up or to lay blankets out to sit on. This helps them to develop their self-esteem. n Staff support children to develop important social skills, such as taking turns with their peers. Staff explain to the children clearly how long they will have with a popular toy before they pass it to their friend. This supports children to understand how to take turns well. Developing social skills such as these helps children to build relationships with their peers. n The manager understands how to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. She knows how to identify when children need extra support or intervention and which agencies to access where necessary. n The manager understands what good practice looks like. She provides regular feedback to staff to help them to improve their practice. She and her staff have accessed courses and worked with the local authority to ensure that practice is

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now of a consistently high quality. This leads to good outcomes for children. n The manager builds excellent parent partnerships. Parents speak extremely positively about the setting. They consistently report that they value the warmth of the staff and the daily verbal feedback that they receive about what their children have been doing at the setting. n On occasion, staff do not consider how to support babies to fully engage in all opportunities on offer. For example, babies sit in high chairs during a painting activity and this does not allow them to get fully involved with this.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

The manager and staff understand the processes they need to follow to keep children safe from risk of harm. They ensure that they attend regular safeguarding training and discuss safeguarding information and updates regularly. The manager displays important safeguarding numbers and information, so that these are easily accessible for staff. The manager has now put a clear mobile phone policy in place. This means that the manager and staff do not use personal mobile phones while children are present. This helps to keep children safe. The manager and staff have a strong understanding of how to support individual health needs, such as allergies. They attend specific training, such as in the use of an adrenaline auto- injector, to ensure that they can meet the individual needs of children at the setting.

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should:

n consider how to support younger babies to easily access all learning opportunities throughout the day.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY417600 Local authority Lambeth Inspection number 10284912 Type of provision Childcare on 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 16 Number of children on roll 14

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reference number

Date of previous inspection 6 October 2022

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Information about this early years setting

Hedgehog House registered in 2010. It is located in Brixton Hill, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The setting employs five members of staff, including the manager. All staff hold relevant qualifications at level 3 and above. The setting is open from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, all year round, except two weeks during the summer, two weeks at Christmas and on bank holidays. The setting provides funded early education for children aged three years.

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Inspection activities

n The inspector discussed any continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with the provider and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The manager and the inspector completed a learning walk together and discussed the curriculum. n The inspector carried out a joint observation of an activity with the manager. n Children spoke to the inspector about what they enjoy doing in the setting. n The inspector observed the interactions between staff and children. n The inspector had discussions with staff and parents and took their views into account. n The inspector held discussions with the manager about the setting's practices and procedures.

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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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Inspection activities

28 September 2023 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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