The Butterfly Patch, Lower Morden

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 January 2024, we received concerns that the provider was not meeting some of these requirements.

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Summary of outcome

On 23 January 2024, we carried out a regulatory telephone call. We found the provider was not meeting some of the requirements. We have served a welfare requirements notice. 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. The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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n ensure that all staff receive induction and ongoing training to help them understand their roles and responsibilities and to implement the setting's policies and procedures effectively

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n review staffing arrangements to ensure that children are adequately supervised at all times, to keep them safe and to meet their needs

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n ensure children are usually within sight and hearing of staff and always within sight or hearing

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n assess potential risks or hazards to children's safety during outings and identify the steps to be taken to remove, minimise, and manage those risks and hazards to ensure children's safety

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n ensure staff can demonstrate how they identify aspects of the environment that need to be checked on a regular basis, when and by whom those aspects will be checked and how risks will be removed or minimised to ensure children are not exposed to risks.

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We will monitor the provider's response to ensure the actions are successfully completed.

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Publication of compliance action

We aim to ensure that the welfare of children and young people is protected in the services we regulate. The Childcare Act 2006 and accompanying regulations set out our responsibilities to regulate childminders and childcare providers. This includes the enforcement powers we have in relation to those registered providers who do not comply with the requirements for registration.

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Publication of compliance action

We publish details of any actions we take, or the childminder or childcare provider takes to bring about compliance with requirements on our website for a period of five years.

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Publication of compliance action

For further information please read the Early years compliance handbook which can be found here at www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-provider-non-compliance- action-by-ofsted .

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