Little Dreams Nursery

1. To promote children’s health, safety and wellbeing, the provider should ensure effective procedures to fully support children’s health needs. This should include but is not limited to: a) Ensure relevant information about children’s health needs is available to all staff. b) Ensure all information about medication is easily accessed and understood by all staff. c) Ensure all records fully comply with relevant best practice guidance. This is to ensure care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'My care and support is provided in a planned and safe way, including if there is an emergency or unexpected event' (HSCS 4.14); and 'I experience high quality care and support because people have the necessary information and resources' (HSCS 4.27).

2. To ensure children have the opportunity to experience positive interactions to support their play and learning, the provider should support staff to further develop their skills and knowledge. This should include but is not limited to: a) Provide opportunities to support and further develop staff’s knowledge and understanding of child development and how children play and learn. b) Provide opportunities to extend and develop staff skills to support high quality interactions and further develop children’s play and learning. This is to ensure care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'As a child, I can direct my own play and activities in a way that I choose, and freely access a wide range of experiences and resources suitable for my age and stage, which stimulate my natural curiosity, learning and creativity' (HSCS 2.27); and ‘I can maintain and develop my interests, activities and1. To support children’s wellbeing, play, learning and development, the provider should ensure effective deployment of staff. This should include but is not limited to: a) staff should be deployed effectively to meet the individual needs of children and promote high quality outcomes b) staff deployment should support effective mentoring and enable staff to support each other. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states 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’ (HSCS 3.14); and ‘My needs are met by the right number of people’ (HSCS 3.15).