Blossom Day Nursery

1. To promote children's wellbeing, the provider should improve mealtime experiences. This should include but not be limited to, ensuring staff consistently sit with children to improve supervision and interactions. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states that: 'I can enjoy unhurried mealtimes in as relaxed an atmosphere as possible' (HSCS 1.35).

2. To support children’s wellbeing and development, the provider should ensure personal planning approaches are developed to ensure they set out how children's individual needs will be met. This should include, but not be limited to, ensuring personal plans: - are regularly reviewed with children and parents, - are kept up to date to reflect children's current needs, wishes and choices, - outline strategies of support to aid children's care, play and learning needs. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states that: 'My personal plan (sometimes referred to as a care plan) is right for me because it sets out how my needs will be met, as well as my wishes and choices' (HSCS 1.15).

1. To ensure children experience consistently positive care and support, the provider should further develop and embed a focused and effective approach to improving staff skills, knowledge and confidence. This is to ensure care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state: 'I have confidence in people because they are trained, competent and skilled, are able to reflect on their practice and follow their professional and organisational codes.' (HSCS 3.14).

2. The provider should ensure planning for staff deployment consistently promotes positive outcomes for children. This would include, but not be limited to, ensuring busier times of the day are planned with an outcome-focused approach. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I have confidence in people because they are trained, competent and skilled, are able to reflect on their practice and follow their professional and organisational codes' (HSCS 3.14) and 'My needs are met by the right number of people' (HSCS 3.15).