Windmill Nursery

1. The provider should further develop quality assurance processes to support continuous improvement for children and families. Leadership should strengthen recording, auditing and oversight to ensure consistency, accountability and safe data storage practice. This should include the review and monitoring of medication, accidents and incidents, risk assessments, and policies and procedures. This will ensure care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state: ‘I benefit from a culture of continuous improvement, with the organisation having robust and transparent quality assurance processes’ (HSCS 4.19). Strengthening current practice will support consistent, safe and accurate recording and storage of information, ensuring children’s health, safety and wellbeing are protected.

1. To support children's health, wellbeing, and safety, each child should have a personal plan in place that clearly shows children's care and learning needs. This should include but not be limited to: • initial story to gathering information ‘what matters to the child’; • identify key needs which include heath, welfare, and learning needs; • strategies to support identified needs; and • a review and reflection on children's progress, and a plan for what's next. This is to ensure the quality of care is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states: '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) and 'My care and support meets my needs and is right for me' (HSCS 1.19).

1. To support children’s wellbeing, learning, and development, the provider should ensure the children have access to a high-quality environment that is well designed. This should include, but not be limited to, children having access to a well designed outdoor space that is suitably furnished and has appropriate safety measures in place. This is to ensure the quality of the environment is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states; that as a child, the premises should be adapted, equipped and furnished to meet children’s needs and wishes (HSCS 5.16) and 'I can use an appropriate mix of private and communal areas, including accessible outdoor space, because the premises have been designed or adapted for high quality care and support' (HSCS 5.1).