Bournemouth Day Nursery

Inspection of Bournemouth Day Nursery 75 Lansdowne Road, BOURNEMOUTH BH1 1RW

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Inspection date: 16 April 2025 - 21 May 2025

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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 Good

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The provision is inadequate

Children's safety is not assured. Leaders and managers do not demonstrate sufficient understanding of their safeguarding responsibilities to keep children safe from harm. Leaders and managers do not ensure that staff have the skills they need to carry out their roles to meet the children's needs. Staff handle children with a lack of care and sensitivity at times when carrying out care and daily routines. Staff do not ensure that the equipment younger children use is safe for them, and they do not record some accidents children have or share these with parents.

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The provision is inadequate

Leaders and managers do not ensure that effective risk assessments are in place to protect children's welfare. Appropriate checks are not undertaken of the outside area before children use this space to ensure it is safe and secure and children are not able to leave the setting unsupervised. Furthermore, action has not been taken to consider and minimise all the relevant risks to children following a recent significant event. As such, children's safety and welfare are not assured.

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The provision is inadequate

Although there is a well-designed curriculum in place, leaders and managers do not ensure that staff have the training and skills to deliver it effectively, and, as a result, children are not making good enough progress or being prepared well enough for school. Activities and staff interactions often lack challenge, and children lose interest. Staff working with the youngest children do not provide these children with the support and input they need to feel settled, safe and secure and build trusting relationships with staff. Children take part in some of the activities staff provide. For example, babies and toddlers blow bubbles with a large bubble wand, although staff do not use this opportunity to extend children's communication and language.

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need to do better?

n Leaders and managers do not ensure that staff handle children with appropriate care. For example, staff balance young children on their hips in an unsafe manner and pull children's arms and wrists abruptly so that children can reach the taps to wash their hands. Staff do not communicate with children to explain what is happening. For example, staff lift children up to move them without talking to them about what they are doing. This often means children are anxious, and their safety and well-being are compromised. n Those with a safeguarding lead role do not have a secure understanding of their safeguarding responsibilities. They do not consistently follow the correct procedures to notify concerns about children's safety and well-being to the local authority, as required. They do not understand when they need to contact the local authority designated officer.

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need to do better?

16 April 2025 n Robust risk assessments are not in place. Leaders and staff do not identify potential risks to children or act swiftly to remove these risks. Despite additional locks and an alarm being added to the gate in the outdoor area, they have not considered the risks relating to the poor supervision of children during drop-off and pick-up times. Processes for managing risks associated with a child going missing are ineffective. Due to these weaknesses, the safety of children is not assured. n Staff do not consistently promote good hygiene for children and do not promptly meet children's care needs. For example, staff do not recognise when babies and toddlers have runny noses. Babies and toddlers are left for long periods of time without having this basic care need met. This does not respect children's dignity and does not help prevent the spread of germs and infections. Furthermore, when children are injured or have accidents, staff do not consistently follow

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need to do better?

recording and reporting procedures. This means children who are injured are not subsequently monitored and parents are not always informed. n Leaders and managers do not ensure that staff have the training, support and skills they need so that their engagement and interactions with children are of a high quality. Staff delivery of the curriculum across the nursery is weak. Children do not receive the challenge they need to build on what they already know. Children often wander around and spend a lot of time not engaged in meaningful learning. Staff who work with babies and younger children do not spend enough time talking to children, modelling language, repeating words and sounds, and engaging children in back-and-forth interactions. Babies and younger children are not exposed to the wealth of language they need to become confident communicators. When older children make collages, staff do not engage them in conversations, for example to describe what they are doing

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need to do better?

and what they are trying to create. n Staff who work with babies and young children do not use the caring and nurturing approach children need to help them build trusting relationships with their key person. Babies and young children are often unsettled and upset, particularly at meal and sleep times. Staff do not talk to children as they carry out their intimate care routines and do not engage with children as they feed them. This does not provide children with the safety and security they need to become confident learners. n Staff understand their responsibilities to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They identify these children's needs and work with parents and professionals to put additional support in place to help children move forward with their learning. Some activities build on children's prior understanding. For example, staff show children images of different types

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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

ensure staff have the understanding and skills to carry out safe care and daily routines in a way that does not place children's safety at risk 30/05/2025

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ensure those with a designated safeguarding responsibility understand and follow procedures set out by their local safeguarding partnership, so they know when they need to contact the local authority designated officer 30/05/2025

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Due date

ensure that staff follow robust hygiene measures to promote children's good health 30/05/2025

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ensure that risk assessments effectively identify potential hazards to children, indoors and outdoors, to ensure that all risks are considered and necessary action is taken to reduce risks 30/05/2025

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ensure all staff record accidents and share relevant information with parents to keep children safe 30/05/2025

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Due date

ensure that staff who work with the youngest children meet the children's needs in a nurturing and caring way so that children feel safe and settled and build positive relationships with those who care for them. 30/05/2025

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Due date

16 April 2025 provide staff with the training and support they need to deliver the curriculum so that children receive the challenge and interactions they need based on what they need to learn next, to make good progress across the different areas of learning, particularly in their communication and language. 30/06/2025

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY340754 Local authority Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Inspection number 10395966 Type of provision Childcare on non-domestic premises

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Registers

Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Day care type Full day care

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inspection

Total number of places 85 Number of children on roll 99 Name of registered person Bournemouth Day Nursery Partnership

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reference number

Telephone number 0120 229 57 37 Date of previous inspection 16 November 2021

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Information about this early years setting

Bournemouth Day Nursery registered in 2006. The nursery is one of two privately owned settings and operates from a large house close to Bournemouth town centre in Dorset. The nursery is open five days a week from 7.30am to 6pm, all year round. There are 25 members of staff. Of these, one holds a level 6 qualification, 13 hold a level 3 qualification and two hold level 2 qualifications. The nursery offers government-funded places.

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Information about this inspection

Inspectors Mikaela Jauncey Lisa Melville

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Inspection activities

n The inspection started on 16 April 2025. Inspectors returned on 21 May 2025 to gather additional evidence in line with 'Ofsted inspections and visits: Deferring, pausing and gathering additional evidence' policy. n The inspector viewed the provision and discussed the safety and suitability of the premises with the deputy manager. n The deputy manager joined the inspector on a learning walk and talked to the inspector about the curriculum and what they want children to learn. n Staff talked to the inspector throughout the inspection and discussed how the curriculum is planned and implemented and how children's progress is monitored. n The inspector spoke to several parents during the inspection and took account of their views. n The deputy manager carried out a joint observation of a creative activity with the inspector. n The inspector observed interactions between staff and children throughout 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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