YMCA Beginnings Day Care

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

The provision is good • The manager provides strong leadership. The provider and the manager are passionately dedicated to ensuring they meet the needs of the children and families that attend the nursery. They serve a diverse section of the community and as such, their ethos is to provide the best possible care and learning for the children they look after.

• Additional funding is thoughtfully targeted and used creatively to close any gaps in children's learning. • Qualified staff use the information they obtain from observations effectively to assess what children know and can do, and plan for what they need to learn next. • Children have strong and secure emotional attachments... to staff.

They get to know children's individual personalities well. Children demonstrate excellent confidence and have good levels of well-being. • Children's behaviour is good.

Staff gently remind children of rules and boundaries as they play, providing explanations to help them understand how some of their actions might make others feel. • Partnerships with parents are strong. Staff work closely with them to share information about their children's care and ongoing learning.

Parents and staff work together from the outset to identify children's starting points. It is not yet outstanding because: • Although the manager is committed to continuous improvement, the views of parents are not yet fully included in the self-evaluation of the nursery. • The manager has not fully developed the use of information about the progress of groups of children to precisely target interventions.