Home from Home Kidz Care Ltd

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • The manager and staff are dedicated to raising the quality of the nursery further. They have a range of strategies in place to take account of the views of parents, staff and children. The manager sets ambitious targets to help to improve.

For example, she has recently enhanced the physical development opportunities for children, using external training and support for all staff. This has helped to deepen their understanding of how young children acquire physical skills. • The key-person system is effective.

Caring staff take time to get to know all children and their families. Children settle well in the homely environment. They display strong e...motional well-being and confidence and are very happy.

• Children demonstrate high levels of independence. Babies persevere when feeding themselves. Older children wait patiently and take turns to self-serve from food trolleys, using assorted utensils.

• Staff support children's learning and development well. They carefully plan resources and activities to meet children's individual needs and promote their next steps in learning. • Partnerships with parents are strong.

Staff keep them informed and successfully involve them in their children's learning. Staff share ideas with parents so that they can support learning further. For example, parents are invited to take kits to grow sunflowers and make dough at home.

Parents comment positively and say that the nursery is a 'true home away from home'. • Occasionally, staff do not extend questioning to allow children to think through their own ideas and deepen their learning. • Staff do not always reinforce children's awareness and understanding of how to stay healthy.