Rephad Nursery

1. The management team should continue to strengthen systems for monitoring and evaluating the impact of staff practice. Robust quality assurance processes should be further embedded to support the service and improve outcomes for children. To achieve this, the management team should work together to: a) Ensure that monitoring of staff practice and the implementation of organisational policies and procedures is carried out regularly, with purposeful and constructive feedback provided to support staff to make and sustain improvements. b) Actively involve all stakeholders, including staff, children, and parents, in self evaluation processes to develop a shared understanding of strengths and priorities for improvement. c) Strengthen leadership across the staff team by supporting practitioners to take responsibility for key areas, develop confidence in leading improvements, and contribute meaningfully to ongoing evaluation and change. This1. The manager and staff should continue to strengthen approaches to child led planning to ensure children experience appropriate levels of challenge, depth and progression in their play and learning. Planning should be closely linked to high quality observations recorded in children’s journals, with meaningful next steps identified. These observations should be routinely monitored to ensure consistency and effectiveness across the staff team. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: "My care and support meets my needs and is right for me". (HSCS 1.19); and "I experience high quality care and support based on relevant evidence, guidance and best practice." (HSCS 4.11).

1. To ensure every child receives the right level of care, support and challenge, the service should strengthen the quality and consistency of personal planning. This should include ensuring that high quality, up to date information is understood and used effectively by all staff to support each child’s individual needs. In order to achieve this, the service should: ensure up to date personal plans are readily accessible to staff so they can be used as effective working documents provide consistent support for all children, including those without formally identified additional support needs, by implementing agreed strategies reliably ensure staff provide consistent, nurturing and responsive care by understanding and acting on each child’s needs, preferences and developmental stage monitor the quality of personal plans and the consistency with which they are implemented, ensuring staff practice reflects agreed approaches Using p