Childminder in Staffordshire

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

Adults who work with the children show them high levels of care and love. They regularly provide children with comfort when it is needed. Consequently, children have developed strong bonds with the adults who care for them. They play cooperatively with adults and their peers as they build and construct with blocks and other resources. There are plenty of opportunities for children to develop their mathematical knowledge. For instance, adults support them to count in sequence and to negotiate the space around them as they play.

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The provision is good

The curriculum covers all areas of learning. Adults follow children's interests as they set out a range of learning experiences. Children thoroughly enjoy listening to stories. They show high levels of attention during story times. Older children start to explain the story in their own words as they use the pictures to guide them. Younger children make sounds and attempt to say words as they touch and feel the sensory books. Adults support children to solve problems in their play, for instance as they learn how to climb up the frame and how to come down safely. Adults are good role models to the children. They talk to children with high levels of respect. Adults remind children of the rules when needed. Children behave well.

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need to do better?

n The curriculum is sequenced well to build on children's knowledge over time. The childminder is keen for children to leave the setting able to lead their own play and ready for the next stage of their learning. n Older children are confident and independent learners. They choose where they would like to play and stay enthused for long periods of time. However, younger children can at times lose focus and walk away from activities quite quickly. At these times, adults do not fully support them to remain engaged and enthused to learn. n The childminder places focus on children developing their communication and language skills. Adults surround children with language as they play. They ask children questions as they play and provide them with time and space to think about their responses. n Adults know their key children very well. This helps them to identify appropriate next steps and targets for children to achieve. However, there are times during

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need to do better?

free play when some children are able to complete tasks with ease. At these times, adults do not think carefully enough about how they can extend children's knowledge even further as they play. n Adults monitor children's development well. This helps them to identify gaps in children's learning. The childminder works closely with parents and other professionals. This helps her to ensure that any gaps in children's learning are addressed and that children with special educational needs and/or disabilities

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need to do better?

2 July 2025 receive appropriate support. n The childminder completes regular meetings with any adults who work with the children. Together, they discuss any training opportunities and the children's needs or development. However, the childminder stopped observing adults' practice in the setting. This does not fully support them to continuously enhance their teaching practice over time. n The key-person system is good. The childminder works well in partnership with parents. She uses various methods to capture and share key information about the children. The childminder provides parents with regular updates about their child's development and ways that they can continue to support their child at home. Parents and grandparents value the support they receive from the childminder. They explain that their children love to attend the setting. Parents give credit to the childminder for the progress their child has made in their

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development. n The childminder prioritises children's health. Children have access to water throughout the day. The childminder ensures that children have sun cream applied during warm or hot weather. She also supports children to wash their hands as needed throughout the day. The childminder changes children's nappies and supports children with toileting as needed. n Adults have appropriate strategies in place to manage children's behaviour. They praise children for what they do well. This helps children to have an understanding of what is expected of them. n Adults complete regular risk assessments in the home, including for the indoor and outdoor environments and the childminder's pet. The setting is safe, suitable and secure.

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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 provide younger children with support during free play, with an aim to help them remain engaged and enthused to learn n strengthen the use of next steps to help extend children's knowledge even further as they play n improve the methods used to monitor adults' practice with an aim to support them to continually enhance their teaching practice.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY467860 Local authority Staffordshire Inspection number 10404951 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 12 Number of children on roll 6 Date of previous inspection 28 September 2021

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Information about this early years setting

The childminder registered in 2014 and lives in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. She operates all year round, except for family holidays. The childminder's operating hours are from 7.30am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. The childminder holds an approved early years qualification at level 6. She provides funded early years education for two-, three- and four-year-old children. The childminder works with an assistant.

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Inspection activities

n The childminder showed the inspector 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 provision, including the aims and rationale for her early years foundation stage curriculum. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact that this is having on the children's learning. n The inspector observed the interactions between all adults and the children. n Parents and grandparents shared their views with the inspector. n The childminder provided the inspector with a sample of key documentation on request.

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Inspection activities

2 July 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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