St Joseph’s Badgers

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents

This provision is good • Managers have a sound understanding of their key responsibilities. The club is well organised.

Staff successfully implement a variety of records, documents and policies that support practice. This helps to promote safeguarding and welfare at a good level. • Children settle in easily and quickly become familiar with their surroundings.

They are relaxed and comfortable attending. Staff are welcoming and approachable. Before children start, they invite them and their parents to visit the club and they use their settling-in processes to help get to know them well.

• The environment is bright, stimulating and well resourced. Children have fun... and enjoy attending. They confidently make choices about what they want to do and are keen to take part in different activities.

• Staff interact with children in a positive way. They provide children with varied activities that take account of their interests and build on their current skills. This helps all children to continually progress well in their learning and development.

• Partnerships with parents and the host school are good. They comment that they are very happy with the service provided by the club. Staff regularly exchange two-way information with parents and teachers about children's care and education.

This helps to foster continuity between all those involved in their lives. • The premises is safe and secure. The environment is kept tidy and all areas are cleaned on a daily basis.

Staff also conduct routine health and safety checks to ensure that the environment, toys and resources are continually suitable for use. • Staff do not manage the transition between children's arrival at the club in the afternoon and starting activities as well as possible. This is because this takes an unnecessarily long period of time.

There is scope to review and adapt the arrival routine to help make the most of the time children spend at the club. • Managers do not always make the best use of self-evaluation to focus on raising the standard to an outstanding level. They do not yet fully include staff in setting clear targets for future development.

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