St. Peter's RC Primary School Nursery
Recorded Key Question grade range: 4–5 — Good View on Care Inspectorate
Key Question scores
Requirements & recommendations
1. To ensure quality care and positive experiences for children, the provider and manager should ensure effective quality assurance and self-evaluation is in place. This should include but not limited to: a) Providing meaningful opportunities for staff, children and families to provide feedback that impacts positive changes. b) Providing consistent support to enhance staff morale and monitoring of staff practice. d) Ensuring that improvement planning leads to continuous improvement. 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) and 'I am supported to give regular feedback on how I experience my care and support and the organisation uses learning from this to improve' (HSCS 4.8).
1. During mealtimes, to ensure children are kept safe and healthy, the provider and manager should strengthen staff’s understanding of best practice guidance. This should include but not limited to; safe and effective hand washing practices and the prevention and management of choking. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that:
‘I experience high quality care and support based on relevant evidence, guidance and best practice' (HSCS 4.11) and ‘I can enjoy unhurried snack and mealtimes in as relaxed an atmosphere as possible’ (HSCS 1.35).
Conditions of registration
To provide a care service to a maximum of 40 children aged from 3 years to not yet attending primary school at any one time.
During August children aged 2 years 11 months may attend the service.
Adult: child ratios will be a minimum of:
2 years 11 months to under 3 years 1:5 1:8 if the children attend more than 4 hours per day or
1:10 if the children attend for less than 4 hours per day.