Childminder in Middlesbrough

Overall effectiveness Good

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

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The provision is good

Children are happy and settled in the childminder's care. They go to her for cuddles, which she readily gives, supporting their emotional needs. The childminder knows the children well. She is aware of when they want to rest and she provides a blanket and makes sure children are warm and comfortable. Children are well behaved and the childminder calmly reminds them about general rules and safety, such as not jumping on the sofa and how to sit safely while eating. However, the childminder does ensure that children have other opportunities for jumping around and dancing, such as when engaging in action rhymes, singing and dancing.

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The provision is good

The childminder promotes children's physical wellbeing. She provides healthy and nutritious snacks and home cooked meals. She also talks to children about what foods are good for them and how to keep themselves healthy and well. For example, through regular handwashing routines. The childminder supports children's independence, such as when they chop their own fruit at snack time. The childminder provides suitable and varied learning experiences that ensure all children make good progress in their learning and development. She works in partnership with other professionals when some children would benefit from additional support. For example, speech and language support.

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need to do better?

n The childminder ensures a strong focus on promoting children's communication and language development. She implements additional strategies to help individual children. For example, a visual timetable is used to help children understand the daily routine. She also speaks clearly to children and encourages them to repeat words correctly. n Although children's development and progress is monitored by the childminder, activity planning does not always focus precisely on the specific next steps for each child. However, this is not having a significant impact on children's development. n The childminder is well aware of children's interests and includes these when planning activities. For example, for children who are interested in animals, she reads various stories including animals to them. This also fosters children's love of books, their early literacy skills and language development. n Children have a positive attitude to learning and engage well in the activities

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need to do better?

available, including problem solving tasks. For example, they find a flat surface to place skittles. They also discuss which items go in which room of the dolls house. This also helps to promote children's understanding of the world. n The childminder ensures that children also learn about the wider world. She ensures they have opportunities to understand, celebrate and engage in activities around Chinese New Year.

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need to do better?

29 January 2025 n The childminder interacts well with children. She is skilled at bringing in different areas of learning into activities. For example, when learning about different colours children also have opportunities for developing their fine motor skills and hand and eye coordination, as well as matching and sorting skills. n The childminder ensures children have lots of other opportunities for developing their early maths skills. They sort items by colour, such as matching cups, saucers and spoons. n The childminder engages children in regular number rhymes and songs. She also teaches them positional words such as top, bottom, upside down. Children learn about positioning the skittles 'in a row' or in a triangle shape. n The childminder ensures that children's fine motor skills are promoted when they concentrate to move items with tweezers. She provides lots of praise and encouragement which supports children's confidence and self-esteem.

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need to do better?

n Partnership with parents is good. Parents provide very positive written comments about the provision. They are kept well informed of their child's development and progress. n The childminder has accessed a small number of webinars since her last inspection and intends to complete an 'understanding autism' training course in the near future. On the day of the inspection the provider did not have public liability insurance in place. This is a breach of requirements. However, this was rectified following the inspection and this is now in place, therefore, there is no impact on children.

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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 ensure that the curriculum and activities are more precisely planned to best support the identified next steps in each child's learning n continue to access appropriate training and professional development opportunities where possible, to support learning experiences for children, that continually improves.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY542590 Local authority Middlesbrough Inspection number 10368124 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 7 Date of previous inspection 8 March 2019

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2017 and has an assistant registered to work with her when needed. She operates all year round from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Thursday, except for bank holidays and family holidays. The childminder holds an appropriate qualification at level 3. She is registered for the Governments Early Years Childcare Funding.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder showed the inspector around the premises and discussed how she ensures that they are safe and suitable. n The childminder and the inspector discussed how the childminder organises her early years setting, including the aims and rationale for the curriculum. n The inspector observed the interactions between the childminder and children. n The inspector took account of parents' written views and comments, as part of the inspection. n The childminder provided the inspector with some key documentation used for the efficient management of the setting.

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Inspection activities

29 January 2025 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

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