Union Grove Community Nursery

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager is passionate, highly qualified and has high expectations for children and staff. She meets with staff and the management committee regularly to review the operation of the setting with a view to improving on children's learning and development. • Effective relationships with parents ensure children's interests, abilities and needs are understood and met.

Staff use information from parents to ensure children settle quickly. The key-person system is effective. • The quality of teaching is good.

Children benefit from staff's positive and enthusiastic involvement in their play. Staff continually interact with children and provide a narra...tive to their play. • The manager implements a monitoring system which identifies any gaps in children's learning for different groups in the nursery.

This information is used by staff to ensure that gaps are quickly closed. • Children are ready for their next steps in learning and development. Staff have detailed planning for all children, which includes the role of an adult.

This is particularly helpful in any absence of the key person. As a result, children are supported at all times in their learning and development. • The manager provides continuous professional development training for staff.

However, staff's learning is not routinely embedded in practice. • Staff complete regular checks on the progress children make. However, assessment procedures on children's entry are not accurate enough to enable staff to rigorously monitor children's development from the start.