Gingerbread-St Cuthbert's ASC

1. To enable children to benefit from care and support that is right for them, the provider should review children’s personal plans. These should be meaningful, working documents that support children’s care. They should include strategies to support children’s wellbeing and document progress made. Personal plans should be regularly reviewed with children and families to ensure information is up to date to reflect children’s current needs, wishes and choices. This will contribute to ensuring each child receives appropriate care and support and their wellbeing needs are met. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: 'My personal plan (sometimes referred to as a care plan) is right for me because it sets out how my needs will be met, as well as my wishes and choices' (HSCS 1.15).

1. To support children’s wellbeing and promote the continued development and improvement of the service, the manager and staff team should ensure robust self evaluation and quality assurance is taking place. This should be well organised, so it is achievable, reviewed and monitored over time. This should include but not be limited to, a) monitoring the impact of personal plans and ensure timely reviews b) ensure all children have an emergency procedure in place should their medication not be effective c) use of a range of best practice guidance for benchmarking the service against and inspiration for improvement d) inclusion of family views to inform self evaluation. 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 proce1. To support and strengthen the skills, knowledge and experience of the staff team, the provider should ensure that effective arrangements are in place for inducting and developing the staff team. Induction and ongoing support processes for all staff should comprehensively cover core areas of practice. This should include but is not limited to, a) Ensuring new staff are supported to develop the skills they need through professional learning, modelling of good practice and supportive mentoring. b) Developing the skills and competencies of existing staff, including supporting the manager in their role. 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 professional and organisational codes’ (HSCS1. To support children's play and learning, play spaces and resources should reflect children's current interests, be well-organised, well-maintained and attractively set up for children. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I am able to access a range of good quality equipment and furnishings to meet my needs, wishes and choices' (HSCS 5.21).

2. To ensure staff and children are as safe as possible, the manager and staff in consultation with children should develop and implement effective risk assessments for the service. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: 'My environment is safe and secure' (HSCS 5.17).