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What is it like to attend this early years setting?
The provision is inadequate
Breaches in the safeguarding and welfare requirements of the early years foundation stage have a significant impact on the learning, safety, and well-being of children. Leaders and staff do not fulfil their roles effectively enough to ensure that children are kept safe at all times.
They do not respond swiftly or appropriately to safeguarding concerns. These failures have led to a significant decline in the overall quality of the provision since the last inspection.The quality of education is poor.
For example, staff do not plan well enough to fully take account of the children's individual needs and what they ne...ed to learn next. This includes children who learn English as an additional language as well as children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Staff do not sustain children's interest to ensure that they make the progress they could.
They do not provide consistent and high-quality interactions. Staff's weak planning and teaching skills have a negative impact on children's attitudes towards learning. Children often are bored and wander around as they look for something to do or play with.
Although, children overall behave well. Staff are not consistent in ensuring they support children's emotional well-being and self-regulation.
What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?
Staff attend safeguarding training, however, leaders do not ensure that staff have understood how to keep children safe.
As such, they fail to identify or address gaps in staff's understanding of procedures to follow when allegations are made against a member of staff. In addition, leaders do not ensure that designated safeguarding leads have sufficient knowledge to fulfil their roles and responsibilities to conduct internal investigations, when needed. This compromises the safety of children.
Leaders do not ensure that staff have a suitable understanding of internal procedures for safeguarding. For example, staff refer to a number of different people that they would report concerns to if the designated safeguarding lead or the manager was absent. This means leaders have not communicated the internal process clearly to staff and this may lead to delays in reporting concerns, in line with local safeguarding partnerships.
A lack of effective oversight from leaders has had a significant impact on the overall experiences children receive at the nursery. Although, staff have some opportunities to meet with leaders during supervision meetings, these are not effective in identifying areas for improvement.Induction processes are not robust enough.
Consequently, staff do not have a clear enough understanding of their roles and responsibilities. This impacts negatively on staff's overall ability to keep children safe.Leaders do not swiftly identify gaps in staff's understanding of how children learn and develop.
They do not ensure that poor practice is addressed and improved swiftly. This means that staff are not equipped with knowledge and skills they need to meet children's individual needs, including their need for good-quality early education.Although there is a basic key-person arrangement in place, staff do not have good enough understanding of their role as a key person.
Some key persons do not demonstrate an appropriate understanding of how to support children to achieve next steps in their development. For example, they do not prioritise supporting young children's prime areas of learning, such as communication and language. Furthermore, staff do not support children effectively when they move to a new room.
For instance, they do not provide opportunities for children to build a rapport with their new key person. This does not support children's emotional well-being.Leaders and staff do not have sufficient understanding of children's needs.
They do not implement effective strategies to support children's development and engagement in learning. That means that children who require additional support do not make progress they are capable of, and their learning and developmental needs are not met. These weaknesses have a negative impact on children with SEND.
Staff share some relevant information with parents about their children, such as what activates children do, however they do not ensure that parents know, understand, and follow procedures, to ensure their children are safe in the setting.
Safeguarding
The arrangements for safeguarding are not effective.There is not an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.
What does the setting need to do to improve?
The provision is inadequate and Ofsted intends to take enforcement action.
We will issue a Welfare Requirements Notice requiring the provider to: Due date ensure that all senior managers, leaders and staff identify, act and report allegations in line with local safeguarding partnership procedures 24/10/2024 ensure that staff appointed to conduct internal investigations have the necessary knowledge and skills to fulfil this role 24/10/2024 ensure that all staff know the internal policy and procedure for managing allegations and reporting concerns about the children; that there is no unnecessary delay in reporting concerns and that concerns are reported in line with the local safeguarding partnership procedures 24/10/2024 improve the oversight of the provision and ensure appropriate arrangements are in place for supervision of all staff, including staff with designated safeguarding responsibilities 24/10/2024 provide staff with an effective induction to help them understand their roles and responsibilities to keep children safe 24/10/2024 provide staff with targeted coaching and mentoring to help improve their knowledge of the curriculum and to raise the quality of education 24/10/2024 improve the key-person arrangements to ensure that children's individual needs are consistently met 24/10/2024 implement effective arrangements to ensure that staff can effectively support children with special educational needs (SEND) 24/10/2024 ensure that records are maintained appropriately, and relevant information is shared with parents, carers and other professionals to ensure the setting is safe and effectively managed.24/10/2024 To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage, the provider must: Due date improve the delivery of the curriculum to support all children to make good progress in their learning.
