Thrive Childcare and Education Happitots Erskine

1. To improve outcomes for children, the provider should strengthen the planning and delivery of learning experiences. This should ensure that play is consistently purposeful, supports engagement, and provides appropriate challenge. This should include, but is not limited to: • Ensuring practitioners base learning opportunities on children’s interests, ideas and and emerging needs. • Developing clear approaches to track children’s interests and use this information to inform meaningful next steps in learning. • Supporting practitioners to deliver high-quality play experiences that promote curiosity, creativity and sustained engagement. 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). ‘As1. To ensure children’s health, safety and wellbeing are consistently supported, the provider and manager should establish and embed effective systems for sharing and communicating important information about children. This should include, but is not limited to: • Developing clear processes to record, update and share key information relating to children's health, safety and wellbeing needs. • Ensuring all practioners have timely access to information to support safe and responsive care. • Supporting staff to understand their roles and responsibilities in communicating and responding to children's individual needs. • Monitoring the effectiveness of communication systems to ensure information is shared consistently and acted upon. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which

1. To ensure children experience care and support that meets their needs, the manager and provider should review and develop personal plans. This should include, but not be limited to, ensuring that every child has a personal plan with set targets and support strategies, that plans are measurable and consistently applied in practice, and that staff are provided with relevant training in completing personal planning. 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 'As a child, 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).

1. To improve children's outcomes, the manager and provider should ensure that self-evaluation and quality assurance lead to improved experiences. This process should include, but not be limited to, collecting and responding to feedback from stakeholders and reviewing staff practices. 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. To ensure that children are cared for in a hygienic and safe environment, the manager and provider should ensure that the environment is clean and free of risks. This should include, but not be limited to, robust risk assessments and room checks to minimise the spread of infection. 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 organisational codes' (HSCS 3.14). and 'I experience an environment that is well looked after with clean, tidy and well maintained premises, furnishings and equipment' (HSCS 5.24).