Kirkhope Nursery
Recorded Key Question grade range: 4–5 — Good View on Care Inspectorate
Key Question scores
Requirements & recommendations
1. By 31 August 2025, the provider must ensure the service has a clear understanding of local and national child protection policies and procedures. To do this, the provider must, at a minimum, ensure: a) the staff revisits and reviews local protocols and national child protection policies and procedures, to support a joint understanding of their roles and responsibilities. b) ensure all staff within the setting feel empowered to take appropriate action if necessary to ensure the effective protection, welfare and wellbeing of all children in their care. c) i mplement training, learning and development activities to support the staff's understanding of safeguarding children. T his should include, for example,
1. Personal planning approaches should be reviewed to ensure the service consider all the information provided by families and ensure children receive the right support at the right time. Support strategies, should reflect information contained in the child's plan, wellbeing notes and chronologies, to ensure each child's health, welfare and safety 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)
2. To support children's breadth and depth of learning, the setting should provide a wider range of learning experiences, including more open ended play indoors, such as, large block play, construction and open ended materials. Staff should facilitate and extend children's learning, including their language, literacy and numeracy skills. They should engage children in a meaningful way through open ended questioning, interactive stories, and using concepts such as size, quantity and shape during play, mealtimes and in organising materials for functional play. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'As a child, I have fun as I develop my skills in understanding, thinking, investigation and problem solving, including through imaginative play and storytelling.' (HSCS 1.30) 'As a child, my social and physical skills, confidence, self esteem and creativity are developed through a balance