Golden Lane Childrens Centre

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Communication with parents is good. Staff know the families well and parents report that staff work sensitively with them to support them through difficult periods in their lives. Parents are encouraged to share their ideas about how to improve the setting further, helping managers to target improvements well.

• Children have close attachments to staff, including their key person. This promotes children's personal and emotional well-being. • Children make good progress in relation to their individual starting points.

Staff work effectively with other professionals involved in the children's care to ensure a consistent approach. • Staff encourage ...good behaviour and independence well. They gently remind children of the expected behaviours in the setting, and provide plenty of praise and encouragement to foster self-esteem.

• Some staff provide good one-to-one support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). They make good use of signing to help develop children's communication skills. • Effective settling-in arrangements and well-planned transitions between rooms provide continuity of care, learning and development.

• Staff do not always complete children's two-year-old progress assessments in a timely manner. These assessments need to be completed with accuracy and rigour, to identify children's areas for further support or any areas where the child's progress is less than typical. • The organisation of routines occasionally interrupts children's play and learning.

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