Captain Ted’s

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The provider and her staff provide a warm and welcoming environment.

Children are happy, confident and settled at the club. Staff offer plenty of praise and support to help children to feel a sense of belonging. • Parents compliment staff for their friendly and caring approach.

They say that they know that their children are well looked after. • Partnerships with staff at schools that the children attend, and with parents, are effective. This helps to provide continuity in children's care and learning.

• Children say that they enjoy attending the club where they make new friends across the age groups and from different schools. Older chi...ldren are caring towards the younger ones and often encourage them to join in with their games and activities. • Children benefit from a variety of home-cooked meals.

They have a choice of healthy and nutritious food options and freely help themselves to drinking water. • Although staff discourage unwanted behaviour, they do not use a broad range of strategies consistently and highly effectively to explain to children their expectations of them. • Programmes for staff support and development are not targeted to help raise the quality of the interactions and engagement of staff with children to the highest level.

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