Little Leaders Childcare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is outstanding • Management and leaders meticulously plan the environment. They are passionate about creating an ethos where children can learn through open-ended resources that support their natural curiosity, exploratory impulses and ability to think creatively and critically.

• A detailed and highly effective action plan written in partnership with practitioners and management ensures a whole-team approach to setting meaningful actions for developing the provision and practice in the setting. • Routines are flexible to meet children's needs and the way that they learn. Adults expertly recognise when interactions or activities are not purposeful or conducive to l...earning.

Practitioners' expert knowledge of the way children learn means that they can use everyday experiences and interactions to garner information about what each child knows. • The management team and practitioners are incredibly positive role models to each other. Relationships between practitioners and children are unreservedly sincere as they constantly offer support and ask if they can assist each other.

• Partnerships with parents are exceptional. Practitioners are compassionate and accommodating when supporting parents with common child development concerns, such as behaviour and sleep patterns. • Strategies to support learning in the home are successful due to the practitioners who are dedicated and fully value the contribution parents can make to their child's education.

Parents welcome advice and ideas to promote their children's interest and development in letters, sounds and literacy. • Families who speak English as an additional language are encouraged to share words and phrases in their home language, which are displayed and used in the setting. This helps to make them feel welcomed and valued.