Thornhill Community Pre-School

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 5 March 2026, we received concerns that the provider was not meeting requirements relating to concerns about children's safety and welfare, sleeping arrangements and risk assessment.

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Summary of outcome

On 23 April 2026, we carried out a regulatory visit. We found the provider was not meeting some of the requirements. We have served a welfare requirements notice. 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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Summary of outcome

n ensure the sleep environment for children is in line with safer sleeping guidance in order to keep them safe

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Summary of outcome

n ensure the arrangements for children's mealtimes meet with safer eating guidelines and make sure these guidelines are consistently implemented and managed by all staff

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Summary of outcome

n ensure staff are effectively supported so that their knowledge and practice promote the wellbeing and safety of children, with particular regard to eating and sleeping.

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Summary of outcome

We will monitor the provider's response to ensure the actions are successfully completed. On 6 May 2026, 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 the regulatory event.

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Summary of outcome

We found that the provider had implemented new strategies to enable staff to offer better support to children at mealtimes. They have purchased new equipment and improved the sleep area to promote safer sleeping for children. Additionally, management have implemented more support for staff and monitoring of staff practice.

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Summary of outcome

We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare actions raised.

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Summary of outcome

The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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Publication of complaints

We publish details of complaints made against childminders, home childcarers and childcare providers where we or the provider have taken action in order to meet legal requirements.

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Publication of complaints

We publish details of complaints on our website for a period of five years.

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Publication of complaints

For further information about the complaints process please view the Concerns and complaints about childminders and childcare providers leaflet .

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