Childminder in Harrow

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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On 8 May 2025, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements.

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The report and inspection outcome will be published in due course. Following the inspection, we served a welfare requirements notice on 9 May 2025. 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.

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n ensure that adults who have not yet been deemed suitable by Ofsted, do not have unsupervised contact with children

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n ensure that weaknesses in practice are accurately identified, and addressed

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n improve the key-person system to ensure that children's individual needs are known and met

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n ensure that the required staff: child ratios are met, and that children are well supervised at all times

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n ensure that you and your assistants understand and support children's behaviour appropriately, including ensuring that this does not involve unnecessary physical handling of children

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n ensure that latest government safety guidance is always followed when placing babies down to sleep.

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On 28 May 2025, we carried out a regulatory visit. The focus of the visit was to check whether the provider had met the safeguarding and welfare actions, raised at their last inspection. We found that all adults who currently work at the setting, have now been deemed suitable by Ofsted. The provider now understands the importance of ensuring that any new adults who work at the setting, must only have supervised contact with children, until they are deemed suitable by Ofsted. The provider has undertaken a range of training to improve their understanding of good practice. This supports them to identify weaknesses in practice, so that these can be addressed. The provider has taken steps to improve the key-person system, including ensuring that all adults understand important information about children's individual needs, and next steps in their learning and development. They have reviewed the number of children who attend the provision each day, so that the required staff: child ratios

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are consistently met. In addition, the provider has reviewed the deployment of adults and provided further guidance to them regarding effective supervision of children, so that children are well supervised. The provider and their assistants have implemented new strategies to support children's behaviour positively and appropriately. This has made the provision safer for children. The provider has reviewed and improved arrangements for placing babies down to sleep, to reflect the latest government safety guidance, so that babies are safer when they sleep.

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We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare actions raised. The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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