New Dawn Nursery

Inspection of New Dawn Nursery Alperton Baptist Church, 155 Ealing Road, Wembley HA0 4BY

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Overall effectiveness Inadequate

The quality of education Inadequate Behaviour and attitudes Inadequate Personal development Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not applicable

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The provision is inadequate

The nursery has undergone a period of instability, which has had a negative impact on the quality of education provided. This results in a number of breaches in requirements. The newly appointed leaders show commitment to bring about change and improvement in their own knowledge and the practice in the nursery. However, at present, there are significant weaknesses in practice that impact on children's safety, care, learning and development. Children's welfare is not fully assured. This is because leaders do not have a secure understanding of safeguarding procedures for reporting allegations. They do not ensure that safer recruitment processes are in place and that risk assessments minimise risks to children effectively.

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The provision is inadequate

Leaders do not set out clear intentions for children's learning. Planning is not sequenced to reflect the different stages in children's development. Provided activities lack focus and do not meet children's individual learning needs. Many children are not developing the skills they need to build secure foundations for future learning, particularly in their communication and language development.

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The provision is inadequate

Despite these weaknesses, children show a sense of belonging in nursery and play mainly happily with their friends. Staff are kind and helpful and show caring attitudes towards children.

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need to do better?

n Leaders and staff attend safeguarding training. Although some staff have suitable knowledge of aspects of safeguarding, leaders, including designated safeguarding leads, have gaps in their understanding of procedures to follow when allegations are made against a member of staff. This compromises the safety of children. n Leaders do not complete robust recruitment and vetting checks for all staff. They do not follow their own procedures, such as keeping a record of written references and ensuring all job application forms are in place. This does not help to ensure that all those who work with or have access to children are suitable. n Leaders do not effectively support staff to deliver quality teaching. As a result, teaching is disjointed and lacks consistency. Supervision arrangements are not in place. This means that although leaders are able to identify weaknesses, they do not focus enough on rapid improvement of staff's teaching practice, and this

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need to do better?

negatively impacts on the progress children make in their learning. n Leaders do not ensure that all children are assigned a key person. This means that there is no person with overall responsibility for children's learning and development, which leads to their needs not always being met. This also means that parents do not have a designated person to talk to about their children's

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need to do better?

12 February 2025 learning and development. n Staff can explain their expectations for children's behaviour, however, they do not put these into practice. For example, at times, staff ask children not to run around indoors but do not follow this up when children continue to do so. Staff do not talk to children about their expectations and are inconsistent in their approach to rules in the setting. As a result, children do not to learn to regulate their own behaviour. n Assessments of children's learning and development are not in place. This means that leaders and staff fail to identify what children need to learn. The basic information that staff have does not always accurately reflect children's abilities. Staff do not complete progress checks at age two. They do not identify clear and appropriate aims to help children to learn more. This includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

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n Leaders and staff do not take sufficient steps to identify hazards and protect children from risks to their health and safety. For example, staff do not remove plastic bags from children's reach. This places children at risk of harm. n Leaders do not ensure that their learning intentions are clear and well sequenced. In addition, some staff lack confidence in supporting children's communication and language development. Their interactions with children are, at times, limited to instructions. This means that children do not consistently hear a range of words to support them to build their vocabulary. Children do not gain needed skills to progress in their learning. This includes children who are learning to speak English as an additional language. n Parents say children like coming to the nursery. Staff support parents to provide healthy packed lunches for children.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.

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Safeguarding

There is not an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

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Due date

12 February 2025 ensure all leaders, including designated safeguarding leads, have an up-to-date knowledge of safeguarding issues, including the allegations process, so that they know and follow reporting procedure in line with their local safeguarding partnership 12/03/2025

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Due date

implement effective and robust recruitment and vetting checks to ensure all those who are working with or have access to children are suitable 12/03/2025

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ensure there is adequate supervision and support for staff so that they are clear about their roles and responsibilities to improve their teaching and quality of education for all children 12/03/2025

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put in place effective key-person arrangements to ensure that staff give children the support they need and to improve information sharing with parents to ensure continuity of children's learning 12/03/2025

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ensure that children's behaviour is managed consistently and effectively 12/03/2025

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improve staff's understanding of assessments, including how to complete the progress check at age two, and ensure that areas of developmental delay are swiftly identified and addressed, this includes children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) 12/03/2025

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Due date

improve risk assessments to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to ensure children are not exposed to risks and their health is prioritised 12/03/2025

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Due date

plan and deliver an effective curriculum to ensure that all children make good progress in their learning, particularly in the area of communication and language development. 12/03/2025

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2773167 Local authority Brent Inspection number 10388073 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises Registers Early Years Register Day care type Sessional day care

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inspection

Total number of places 50 Number of children on roll 25

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Name of registered person

New Dawn Childcare Services Community Interest Company

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reference number

Telephone number 07557919083 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

New Dawn Nursery registered in January 2024. It is located in Brent. The nursery is open from 8.30am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, term time only. The nursery offers the government funded places for childcare. The provider employs five staff, four of whom hold a relevant qualification. The nursery manager holds qualified teacher status.

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Inspection activities

n This inspection was carried out following the risk assessment process, following the information we received about the nursery. n The inspector spoke to leaders about the nursery's leadership and management arrangements. n The inspector conducted a joint observation with leaders and discussed the quality of teaching and learning afterwards. n Children and staff spoke to the inspector about their time in the nursery. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector. n The inspector reviewed relevant documentation during the inspection.

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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

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