Amazing Grace Early Years Childcare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is inadequate • The provider does not have enough understanding of her responsibilities under the requirements of the early years foundation stage. She has failed to inform Ofsted of significant events in changes to the running of the nursery.

This compromises children's care and safety. • Documentation required for the safe management of the nursery is not readily available for inspection. Some documentation is kept off site and cannot be easily accessed.

• Recruitment procedures are not robust enough to ensure that all people working on the premises are suitable to do so. The provider is too slow to initiate checks on staff in order to assess their suita...bility to work with children. This puts children's safety at risk.

• There are too few opportunities for children to use their home language in everyday play to strengthen their understanding of English. It has the following strengths • The key-person system works well. Staff understand their key children's needs and interests.

They observe children at play to understand their development. They track children's progress regularly and use this information to plan activities that meet children's individual learning needs effectively. Children are making good progress in relation to their starting points.

• Children have formed good friendships and secure attachments to staff. They settle well at the nursery. They enjoy the range of activities on offer and are keen to involve staff in their play, for example, as they pretend to be hairdressers.