Source · Care Inspectorate

Louise Nimmo

Type Child Minding Location Alloa Last graded 16 Jun 2026

Recorded Key Question grade range: 4–5 — Good  View on Care Inspectorate

Key Question scores

Six-point scale
Support and wellbeing
Care and support planning
5
Setting
5
Staff team
Leadership
4
Care, play and learning
4

Enforcement

2 actions

Formal enforcement action under the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.

S62 (Improvement notice) 25 June 2015
Case 2015335501

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S62 (Improvement notice) 13 February 2015
Case 2015335501

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Requirements & recommendations

0 requirements · 2 recommendations

Verbatim text from the Care Inspectorate datastore. Requirements cite a specific regulation and deadline; recommendations are good-practice guidance against the Health and Social Care Standards.

Visit: 18 May 2026
Recommendation 1

1. To create shared aspirations to provide the best possible experiences for children, the childminder should develop a shared vision, values, and aims with children and families. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I use a service and organisation that are well led and managed' (HSCS 4.23)

Recommendation 2

1. To ensure that future play experiences remain sufficiently challenging for young children as they grow and develop, the childminder should develop their skills in planning, observing, and recording children's development and learning through play. The childminder should then use their observations to reflect and plan new learning opportunities in consultation with children and parents. This should include, but not be limited to, using the best practice guidance to support them, such as: Realising the Ambition: Being me (Education Scotland, 2020) and, Growing my potential (Care Inspectorate, 2022). This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'As a child, my social and physical skills, confidence, self-esteem, and creativity are developed through a ba

Conditions of registration

As published by the Care Inspectorate

1. To provide a care service to a maximum of 6 children at any one time under the age of 16, of whom a maximum
of 6 will be under 12, of whom no more than 3 are not yet attending primary school and of whom no more than
1 is under 12 months. Numbers are inclusive of children of the childminder"s family.

2. The parts of the premises not to be used are upper floor: One bedroom ' parent room'.

3. Overnight service will not be provided.

Registry facts

Service no: CS2006115942
Provider no: SP2006956757
Ownership: Private
Registered places: 6
Registered: 14 August 2006
Council area: Clackmannanshire
Health board: Forth Valley
Integration authority: Clackmannanshire and Stirling
Risk band: LOW