Childminder in Bradford

Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection GoodGood

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The provision is good

Children enjoy their time at the childminder's home and have a good relationship with the childminder. This caring relationship ensures children feel confident, safe and secure. Effective procedures are in place to help children settle when they first start in the childminder's care. This goes towards ensuring children are well prepared and ready to learn and to try new experiences.

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The provision is good

The childminder provides a welcoming and stimulating environment that encourages children to explore and investigate their surroundings. Children make good progress in their learning from their initial starting points. In partnership with parents, the childminder finds out about what children can already do when they first start in her care. This helps to ensure she provides good levels of challenge for children and promotes a consistent approach to learning, both at home and in the childminding setting.

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The provision is good

The childminder provides children with clear and consistent boundaries, and this helps to ensure children understand expected behaviours. From a young age, children are encouraged and supported to share and take turns. The childminder helps children to learn about oral health and how to look after their teeth through various activities. She shares her ideas with parents so they too can encourage this at home.

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need to do better?

n The childminder achieves a good balance between supervising children and allowing them to be inquisitive. She gives children lots of positive praise and encouragement to try new experiences and test their abilities. This helps to develop children's confidence and emotional security. n The childminder supports children's language and communication well. Children sing songs and learn action rhymes. They show good recall as they join in. The childminder values children's early attempts at speech and responds with enthusiasm to their 'babble', repeating sounds back to them. She actively encourages an early love and enjoyment of books. She reads to children, and they point and talk about what they can see. n Children show good levels of focus and concentration. Young children learn to problem-solve as they place different-sized rings on a stand. Firstly, their focus is on getting the rings on the stand and then progressing to doing so without any

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support from the childminder. Next, they progress to placing them on in size order, from largest to smallest, identifying and comparing size with support from the childminder. n Children enjoy mark making and excite in the fact that when they lift the sheet on a reusable board, the marks disappear. They repeat this process, inquisitively

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12 March 2024 looking for the marks on the other side of the board. The childminder acknowledges this by saying 'gone' and holding her arms in the air. She gets a larger board with a sliding mechanism for children to try, building on their learning. She demonstrates by drawing on it and then sliding the stick across to make the marks disappear. Children then repeat this action and delight in the fact that they have done it themselves. n The childminder plans activities that help to build children's strength in their hands. Activities such as threading and using a range of tools to cut, roll and flatten also help children's hand-to-eye-coordination. These skills help children to gain further control and physical independence, encouraging them to develop the skills they need to prepare them for school and their transitions in learning. n The childminder keeps parents updated on their children's progress and the new

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skills they are acquiring. Parents value the regular feedback they receive and welcome the childminder's suggestions of how they can further support their child's learning at home. n The childminder is committed to updating her knowledge and has recently completed training on safeguarding children. She reflects on her practice to ensures she is covering the different areas of learning in her planning of activities. However, there is still scope to further critically evaluate the impact of the curriculum on children's learning and the quality of teaching to further strengthen practice to the highest level.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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Safeguarding

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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should:

n evaluate critically the impact of the curriculum on children's learning, in order to provide children with the highest levels of challenge, to build on and further strengthen teaching.

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Setting details

Unique reference number 302597 Local authority Bradford Inspection number 10327230 Type of provision Childminder

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Childminder

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inspection

Total number of places 6 Number of children on roll 3 Date of previous inspection 25 April 201825 April 2018

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 1997 and lives in Buttershaw, Bradford. She operates all year round from 7.45am to 5pm, Tuesday to Friday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an early years qualification at level 3 and provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children.

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Inspection activities

n This was the first routine inspection the childminder received since the COVID- 19 pandemic began. The inspector discussed the impact of the pandemic with the childminder and has taken that into account in their evaluation of the provider. n The childminder showed the inspector the premises and discussed how she ensures that they are safe and suitable. n The childminder spoke to the inspector about their intentions for children's learning. n The inspector observed the interactions between the childminder and the children. n Parents shared their views on the setting with the inspector. n The childminder provided the inspector with a sample of key documentation on request.

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Inspection activities

12 March 2024 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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12 March 2024 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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