Chipmunks Day Nursery

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 24 June 2025, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements. The report and inspection outcome will be published in due course. Following the inspection, we served a welfare requirements notice on 26 June 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 systems to record accidents and injuries are robust and that all staff follow the correct processes

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n ensure that staff follow appropriate hygiene practices to help maintain children's good health.

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n improve the monitoring of staff practice and provide staff with the support they need to improve the quality of care and learning

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n ensure staff have the necessary skills and knowledge to meet the needs of children with special educational needs and/or disabilities

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n implement an effective key person system to ensure that children's care and learning are tailored to meet their individual needs

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n ensure that there are adequate toileting and nappy changing facilities for all children.

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On 30 June 2025, we carried out a regulatory telephone call. The focus of the call was to check whether the provider had met the safeguarding and welfare actions, raised at their last inspection and due by 25 June 2025. We found that staff had attended additional training to improve their understanding of how to record accidents and injuries appropriately. The provider had changed the organisation of mealtimes to improve the standards of health and hygiene. We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare actions raised at the last inspection, due by 25 June 2025.

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We will monitor the provider's response to ensure the actions raised at the last inspection, due by 8 July 2025, are successfully completed.

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The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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