Hackney Care For Kids

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager reflects carefully on the service she provides for parents and children. She works closely with staff and uses their views to drive forward improvements, for example, to children's learning experiences.

Children's outcomes are improved. • Parents praise the manager and staff. They say staff are warm, caring and skilled at supporting children's emotional well-being.

Children flourish in the welcoming and inclusive atmosphere staff work hard to create. • Staff incorporate mathematical learning into a wide variety of activities. Children enjoy using this learning and share their knowledge.

For example, they eagerly count and tal...k about the number of Easter eggs they recently received. • Children learn about leading a healthy lifestyle. They talk about how vegetables make them strong and how they need to exercise.

Children understand how to keep themselves well. • Staff make regular observations of children and their interests. They use these effectively to plan what they need to learn next.

Children make good progress. • Parents are not consistently provided with as many opportunities as possible to form deeper links with the staff and each other. • Staff do not consistently recognise all opportunities to enable children to express their ideas in their own words.