Pitfour School Nursery
Recorded Key Question grade range: 3–4 — Adequate View on Care Inspectorate
Key Question scores
Requirements & recommendations
1. By 16 December 2025, the provider must ensure staff are supported to deliver high quality, consistent care that leads to positive outcomes for children and their families. To achieve this, the provider must: a) Develop a clear and shared vision, values, and aims for the setting with staff, children, and families. These must be: clearly communicated and understood by all staff evident in daily practice and decision making used to guide interactions, planning, and improvement work. b) Ensure that staff are supported by a robust framework of policies and procedures that are: clear, detailed, and specific to the setting inclusive of key areas, such as promoting positive behaviour and child protection regularly reviewed and used to guide consistent, safe, and nurtur1. By 16 December 2025, to safeguard children and support their care, learning, and development, the provider must ensure that staffing arrangements are safe, effective, and responsive to children's individual needs. To do this, the provider must at a minimum: a) Carry out regular assessments and reviews of each child's care, learning, and support needs and ensure that staffing levels and deployment are sufficient to meet these needs consistently. b) Establish and implement robust quality assurance systems that evaluate children's care experiences and determine whether staffing arrangements are enabling, responsive, and child-centred. To do this, the provider must at a minimum: a) Ensure staff provide children with the supervision, support, and care to meet their individual needs at mealtimes. b) Ensure children eat in a calm and relaxed environment. This is to comply with Regulation 4(1)(a) (Welfare of users) of The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Requirements for Care Services) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/210). This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'If I need help with eating and drinking, this is carried out in a dignified way and my personal preferences are respected' (HSCS 1.34).
3. By 16 December 2025, the provider and manager must ensure children are supported with nurturing care that meets their care needs and emotional wellbeing. To do this, the provider and manager must at a minimum: Ensure children's personal plans accurately reflect their individual needs to support their development and wellbeing, and that staff use this information effectively to provide consistent and responsive care. This is to comply with Regulation 4(1)(a) (Welfare of users) of The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Requirements for Care Services) Regulations 2011 (SSI 2011/210). This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS)
1. To support positive outcomes and experiences for children and families, the provider and manager should implement robust quality assurance and self evaluation processes that lead to improvements in care, learning, and support. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I benefit from a culture of continuous improvement, with the organisation having robust and transparent quality assurance processes' (HSCS 4.19).
1. The provider, manager, and staff must ensure that all children experience high quality play, learning, and development opportunities that are responsive to their individual needs and interests. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: ' I am supported to achieve my potential in my education and employment if this is right for me' (HSCS 1.27).
1. To support effective communication and promote positive relationships with children and families, the provider and manager must develop and embed meaningful ways to involve families and share information about their child's care, learning, and development. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I can be meaningfully involved in how the organisations that support and care for me work and develop' (HSCS 4.6); and 'I am treated as an individual by people who respect my needs, choices, and wishes, and anyone making a decision about my future care and support knows me' (HSCS 3.13).