New Beginnings Childcare Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

What is it like to attend this early years setting?

The provision requires improvement Following COVID-19, leaders have faced challenge, which includes responding to staff shortages. Consequently, the manager and deputy manager often work alongside staff caring for children. This means that while leaders know the children well, they have less time to focus on the leadership and management of the nursery.

As a result, staff are not provided with the effective levels of support or coaching they need to consistently offer a good standard of education and care for all children.The experienced manager knows what she wants children to learn. However, she has not ensured the curriculum is specific enough to help all childr...en develop appropriate knowledge and skills progressively.

Consequently, staff do not fully understand how to precisely plan what children will learn and when. This means that not all children make good enough progress towards the next stages of their education in all of the areas of learning.Staff are very kind and caring towards children in this fully inclusive nursery.

They engage in appropriate interactions with children and help them to explore a range of activities and opportunities. Children show they are happy. For example, children enjoy playing imaginatively, making pretend food alongside one another.

Mostly, staff support children to behave positively. Relationships between staff, children and their families are respectful and trusting.

What does the early years setting do well and what does it need to do better?

Despite leaders' best endeavours, they are unable to oversee the quality of the nursery effectively.

This is because they undertake too many different roles. Consequently, staff do not receive a performance management programme that enables them to reflect on the service they provide and make continuous improvements. This impacts negatively on the overall quality of the care and education children receive.

Despite this, staff state that they feel confident to ask leaders for support or to discuss any concerns they have.Complaints that are brought to leaders' attention are given full consideration. Leaders investigate and deal with any complaints appropriately.

However, they do not keep a written record of complaints and their outcomes.Children are generally happy and settled. They all have a key person who takes responsibility for their care and education.

However, there are weaknesses around the arrangement of the key person system. This is because staff do not share key information with each other about the children or their individual needs. Therefore, in the absence of the key person, some children do not consistently have their individual needs met and some at times feel slightly uncertain.

Staff do not ensure that the organisation of activities always supports learning. For example, children are placed in very large groups to learn one another's names and talk about the weather. Staff do not recognise that some children find it difficult to maintain concentration.

This is because staff have not yet helped them to gain the listening and attention skills to sit in a large group for extended periods of time. Some children wander away from activities and do not develop the knowledge and skills they need for their next stages in education.Managers and staff support children's communication and language skills.

They use strategies such as providing a running commentary and adding a word to children's attempts to communicate. Staff confidently read books such as 'The Gruffalo' and teach children songs. Staff assess children's progress in communication and language development regularly and refer children to other professionals if necessary.

Children acquire language skills appropriate for their age and stage.The nurseries hygiene procedures and policies are not always adhered to by staff. For example, children do not consistently wash their hands before eating and sometimes eat food from unclean surfaces because plates are not always provided.

That said, nappy changing and toileting are managed appropriately and support children's health.Staff support children to understand the expected behaviours of them at nursery. For instance, staff explain the rules and help children to understand that they should use kind hands and words.

Most children behave well. Older children recognise that some children need more support than they do, and they show care and kindness to others.Managers and staff provide an environment where children can learn to develop gross and fine motor control.

For instance, toddlers enjoy trying to pedal bikes, and older children tackle the challenge of threading hooped cereal on to strings with enthusiasm. Children develop physical skills appropriate to their age and stage.Parents speak positively about the service they receive and appreciate staff's attentive care towards their child.

They speak highly about the support staff offer to them when concerns are raised about their child's development. Staff keep parents informed of their child's development and provide them with key information about their child's day.Leaders and staff quickly identify where there are concerns about a child's development.

They work well alongside parents to make swift referrals to other professionals. This helps them to develop effective strategies and support for children with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children's interests first.

What does the setting need to do to improve?

To meet the requirements of the early years foundation stage and Childcare Register the provider must: Due date ensure staff understand how to plan and implement the curriculum to help children gain more knowledge across all areas of learning 05/06/2024 put in place and implement a written procedure for dealing with concerns and complaints.05/06/2024 To further improve the quality of the early years provision, the provider should: develop the performance management of staff to provide effective evaluations of all staff practice and to identify where improvements could be made nimprove hygiene routines to ensure that children's good health is consistently promoted throughout the daily routines strengthen the arrangements of the key-person system to help all children feel secure and to ensure they have their individual needs met at all times.