Rainbow On The Hill

Inspection of Rainbow On The Hill Brixton Hill Methodist Church, Elm Park, LONDON, Lambeth SW2 2TX

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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

Leaders do not have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities. They have not ensured that the nursery meets all the requirements of registration. Significant weaknesses directly impact on the safeguarding arrangements, as well as the quality of education that children receive. Although leaders demonstrate a secure knowledge of child protection, they do not make sure that all staff have a secure understanding of how to identify and respond appropriately to a concern about a child's welfare. In addition, the arrangements in place to identify and act on risks to children appropriately are not sufficient. This compromises children's safety.

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The provision is inadequate

Children do not receive the quality of education they deserve. Leaders do not ensure that they or staff have a sufficient knowledge of how to plan and deliver an ambitious, broad and well-balanced curriculum. Staff do not plan purposeful activities to capture children's curiosities, build on their individual interests or to extend their learning and skills. They do not recognise what they want children to learn next, or how play experiences in the environment support children's ongoing development. This does not set children up to succeed and has a detrimental impact on children's attitudes to their early learning.

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The provision is inadequate

Children's behaviour is negatively impacted due to their lack of stimulation in the environment. Children often wander the environment without purpose. Furthermore, weaknesses in the engagement that staff provide means that children often receive very limited and poor-quality interactions as staff deployment is inconsistent. Despite the significant weaknesses, children demonstrate they are content in the environment and seek comfort from nurturing staff, who they have secure bonds with.

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need to do better?

n Although staff have received safeguarding training, leaders do not ensure that staff fully understand and retain the knowledge they have learned. As such, some staff demonstrate a poor understanding of their responsibilities for child protection. For instance, some staff are not able to identify when children may be at risk, and some do not recognise the urgency to respond swiftly to any concerns they may have. This compromises children's ongoing safety. n Although there are some arrangements in place for staff supervision sessions, these are not regular or effective. Leaders do not ensure that staff receive the ongoing training, support and coaching they need. Additionally, the irregular supervision sessions do not allow leaders to identify gaps in staff's knowledge or act on these accordingly. This does not support staff to continually improve their practice and directly impacts on the quality of care and education children

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need to do better?

8 July 2025 receive. n Leaders do not ensure that children receive meaningful, high-quality interactions. Staff often call out instructions to children across the room, which children do not respond to. Many interactions that children receive are staff telling them not to do something as the poor-quality learning environment impacts on their behaviour. Such limited interactions do not provide children with the opportunities they are entitled to, in order to develop a positive attitude to their learning. n Staff do not receive the guidance and coaching they need to support all children to understand the expectations for good behaviour. They do not apply consistent behaviour management strategies. Staff do not provide the necessary guidance and role modelling children need to help them to learn what is expected of them. Children's disengagement further impacts on their behaviour. For instance, some children do not listen to instructions and tussle over toys.

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need to do better?

n Leaders have a poor understanding of identifying and managing risks, especially at the after-school club. Although staff complete daily risk assessment sheets, they do not adapt these once risks are identified to consider all hazards to staff and children. Staff's understanding of how to recognise and minimise risks is poor. These weaknesses compromise children's safety and well-being. n Children do not benefit from a well-designed curriculum that builds securely on what they know, so that they experience consistently good learning opportunities. Some staff have a poor understanding of how children learn. n Leaders do not monitor the curriculum to close any gaps in children's learning quickly. Staff and leaders are unclear about whether children are meeting their developmental milestones. They do not plan precise next steps in learning that are tailored to individual children. n Leaders and staff gather appropriate information from parents and carers about

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need to do better?

their children when they first start and regularly discuss children's progress. Parents say they are informed about their children's time at nursery.

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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

8 July 2025 ensure that all staff receive appropriate safeguarding training to enable them to identify and respond when a child may be at risk of harm, and know the correct procedures to follow to respond appropriately 08/08/2025

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make sure that staff supervision arrangements are effective in identifying gaps in their knowledge and practice, and provide staff with the support, coaching and training needed to improve their practice 08/08/2025

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Due date

provide staff with support and coaching for deployment so they can implement appropriate and consistent strategies for managing children's behaviour, to help all children to understand how to manage their own behaviour appropriately 08/08/2025

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Due date

implement effective risk assessments to ensure the safety of children 08/08/2025

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plan and implement a broad and ambitious curriculum that builds on children's existing skills and knowledge 08/08/2025

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Due date

monitor the curriculum more precisely to ensure gaps in children's learning are closed quickly through planned next steps. 08/08/2025

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Setting details

Unique reference number 2778144 Local authority Lambeth Inspection number 10409940 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 61 Number of children on roll 38 Name of registered person Lily's On The Hill Limited

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reference number

Telephone number 0208 674 8678 Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Information about this early years setting

Rainbow On The Hill registered in February 2024 and is located in the London Borough of Lambeth. The nursery employs seven members of childcare staff. Of these, four staff hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 3, one member of staff at level 2 and two staff are unqualified. The nursery is open all year round, from 7am to 7pm, Monday to Friday. It also operates a breakfast and after-school club and a holiday playscheme.

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Inspection activities

n The manager and inspector completed a learning walk together of all areas of the nursery and discussed the early years curriculum. n The inspector talked to staff at appropriate times during the inspection and took account of their views. n The inspector observed the quality of education being provided, indoors and outdoors, and assessed the impact on children's learning. n The manager and the inspector carried out a joint observation in the garden. n Parents shared their views of the nursery with the inspector. n The manager showed the inspector documentation to demonstrate the suitability of staff.

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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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8 July 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children's social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children's services, and inspects services for looked after children, safeguarding and child protection.

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