Earlybirds Daycare

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The motivated manager and the well-qualified staff strive to offer a high-quality service.

Effective self-evaluation and action plans help to target and address areas for development. Parents contribute to this process through completing questionnaires. • Babies and young children thrive in this welcoming and inclusive nursery.

They develop secure emotional attachments to their key persons. Staff are highly responsive to children's individual needs and nurture them well. • Staff know the children well.

They talk confidently about where children are in their learning and development and what they need to do to support their continuing pro...gress. Staff are confident to carry through their findings into the planning of the activities. As a result, children are engaged, motivated and make good progress.

• Staff support children with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) well. They work effectively with parents and other professionals to meet all children's learning and care needs. • Parents are happy with the service.

They describe how there is a friendly and caring approach provided by all the staff towards their children and themselves. • The monitoring of staff's practice by the manager is not sufficiently robust to ensure that the quality of teaching is consistently of a very high quality across the nursery. • On occasions, staff do not ensure that group-time activities consistently match the developmental stage of the youngest children.