Bright Horizons New Eltham Day Nursery and Preschool

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good The management team's thorough recruitment and induction procedures help ensure that staff are suitable to work with children. This contributes effectively towards safeguarding children.

Children are happy, safe and secure. They develop good social skills and develop friendships with the other children in the setting. Children are confident to explore their environment.

Staff plan and provide a wide range of activities and topics. These are linked to current celebrations, such as the football World Cup, and reflect and promote children's interests. Children make good progress from their starting points.

The management team seeks and consid...ers the views of staff, parents and children as it carries out effective self-evaluation. This helps managers to identify areas for improvement and set targets. For example, they are focusing on team building to help raise the morale of staff and the overall quality of their practice across the setting.

It is not yet outstanding because: Children in the pre-school room are not consistently challenged and encouraged to help ensure they make the best of opportunities. For example, staff are not consistently engaging children in play and extending their learning. When staff changes occur, not all parents and children are effectively supported during the transition to build on relationships and provide continuity in children's learning.