Little Gem's Childcare

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

Between March and April 2026, we received several concerns that the provider was not meeting requirements relating to concerns about children's safety and welfare, paediatric First Aid, information and record keeping, supervision of staff, staff: child ratios, supporting and understanding children's behaviour, key person, suitable people, safety and suitability of premises, environment and equipment and whistleblowing.

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On 24 April 2026, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements. The report card and inspection outcome will be published in due course. Following the inspection, we served a welfare requirements notice on 5 May 2026. 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 train all staff to understand and implement suitable strategies for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to ensure that their individual needs are well supported.

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n implement a suitable key person approach so that children have consistent support tailored to their individual needs and stages of development so their personal, social and emotional and learning needs are well supported.

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n train and support staff to implement a suitable approach to help understand and manage children's behaviour so that there is a clear and consistent approach to benefit their development. n put in place a suitable and hygienic nappy changing procedure and train all staff understand and implement it consistently.

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n ensure that cots and mattresses that children sleep on, are of a suitable hygiene standard to support the overall health and safety.

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n ensure that all children have the opportunity for outside play and learning to support their overall health and development.

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n take action to ensure that the meals that children receive are appropriately and hygienically served to support their health

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n take steps to implement suitable supervision processes that focus on effective communication, staff wellbeing and coaching to enable staff to fulfil their roles and responsibilities

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n take action to implement effective processes through staff supervision for the provider to understand and evaluate the quality of the practice to focus continuous improvement

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n ensure that appropriate staffing arrangements, including qualification requirements, are put in place to meet the needs of children

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n implement appropriate systems to ensure that there is effective communication between other settings that children attend in order to support the individual needs of children

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On 2 June 2026, we carried out a regulatory visit. We found that the provider had met some of the actions. They have developed the hygiene arrangements for nappy changing procedures. They have developed the information sharing for children that also attend other settings. In addition, the key person approach has been developed and there are suitable hygiene measures around food handling. However, not all of the actions have been met. We have served another welfare requirements notice. In addition, we have added a further action for concerns around safer eating. 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 train all staff to understand and implement suitable strategies for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to ensure that their individual needs are well supported

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n train and support staff to implement a suitable approach to help understand and manage children's behaviour so that there is a clear and consistent approach to benefit their development

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n ensure that cots and mattresses that children sleep on, are of a suitable hygiene standard to support the overall health and safety

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n ensure that all children have the opportunity for outside play and learning to support their overall health and development

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n take steps to implement suitable supervision processes that focus on effective communication, staff wellbeing and coaching to enable staff to fulfil their roles and responsibilities

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n take action to implement effective processes through staff supervision for the provider to understand and evaluate the quality of the practice to focus continuous improvement n ensure that appropriate staffing arrangements, including qualification requirements, are put in place to meet the needs of children

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n ensure that staff are within sight and hearing of children at all times when they are eating in order to keep them safe.

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On 30 June 2026, we carried out a regulatory visit. We found that the provider had met most of the actions raised. They have developed staff practice around safer eating to ensure that staff appropriately supervise children when eating. They have reorganised staffing so that qualification requirements are now met and that there are suitable staffing arrangements in place. The provider has developed the use of staff supervision arrangements to support staff practice and evaluate the quality of the provision. They have redeveloped the garden to ensure that children have daily outside learning opportunities. The provider has developed the sleep arrangements for children so bedding is safe and suitable. They have developed staff practice to support children's behaviour appropriately. However, not all of the actions have been met. We have served another welfare requirements notice. This is a legal notice that requires the provider to take the actions

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below within the timescales set out. The provider will be able to give parents further information about this.

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n train all staff to understand and implement suitable strategies for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities to ensure that their individual needs are well supported

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On 5 August 2026, we carried out a regulatory phone call. We found that the provider had improved their knowledge and understanding of how to support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They understand how to assess children's individual needs and how to support staff to implement these in practice. We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare action raised. The provider is still registered with Ofsted. 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. 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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