Bright Horizons Enfield Hilly Fields Day Nursery and Preschool

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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On 11 August 2026, we carried out an inspection and found the provider was not meeting some of these requirements.

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The report card and inspection outcome will be published in due course. Following the inspection, we served a welfare requirements notice on 3 September 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 ensure concerns about children's safety are consistently identified and immediately notified to the local authority children's social care team, in line with local reporting procedures

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n ensure that staff, including the designated safeguarding lead, are secure in their knowledge of safeguarding matters and are supported and confident to implement the setting's safeguarding policy and procedures

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n ensure staff understand and are confident to implement whistleblowing procedures so that they can raise concerns about unsafe or poor practice and know that any concerns are taken seriously by the senior leadership team and acted upon

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n ensure arrangements for supervision, coaching and professional development are effective in identifying weaknesses in practice and securing improvements in staff performance

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n ensure the staffing arrangements and the deployment enable all children's individual care, learning and supervision needs to be met.

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On 10 September 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 their last inspection. We found that the provider had improved their knowledge and understanding of child protection procedures. They strengthened their knowledge of identifying and notifying concerns immediately to the local authority children's social care team. All staff have refreshed their knowledge of safeguarding matters, including the designated safeguarding lead. Staff are now more confident to implement the setting's safeguarding policy and procedures and have been given multiple options in which concerns can be raised, including anonymously. An open and supportive culture has been fostered to support communication. Regular one to one sessions and informal conversations have been improved, to support staff to continue to improve their practice. Leaders now undertake regular spot checks and

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have refreshed their training on deployment, which ensures that children's individual care, learning and supervision needs are being met. We are satisfied the provider has met the safeguarding and welfare actions raised. The provider is still registered with Ofsted.

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