Mary Dickson
Recorded Key Question grade range: 3–5 — Adequate View on Care Inspectorate
Key Question scores
Requirements & recommendations
1. To help ensure children experience care that is consistent, purposeful and based on shared values, the childminder should review and strengthen the service vision, policies and procedures. This should include, but not be limited to: involving children and families in updating the vision to ensure it reflects current practice and regularly reviewing policies in line with relevant guidance and best practice. 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)
2. To support continuous improvement and help ensure children’s experiences continue to develop and improve over time, the childminder should develop a more structured and effective approach to self-evaluation and improvement. This should include, but not be limited to using a range of methods to gather views, identifying priorities for improvement and using guidance such as the Quality Improvement Framework to support reflection and planning. 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)
1. To help children develop independence, creativity, problem-solving skills and confidence in leading their own play and learning, the childminder should further develop the play environment and experiences to better support child-led learning and creativity. This should include, but not be limited to: increasing the range and variety of open-ended and natural resources, and creating a more inviting and enabling environment that reflects children’s interests. Creative experiences should offer more opportunities for children to express their own ideas rather than relying on adult-led or template-based activities. The childminder should make use of relevant guidance, such as the Loose Parts Toolkit, to support this development. 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 th
Conditions of registration
1. The service will be provided at the address detailed in the notice granting registration.
2. To provide a care service to a maximum of 6 children at any one time under the age of 16, 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.
3. The parts of the premises not to be used is the upper floor except the toilet facilities.
4. Overnight service will not be provided.