Nursery question

[Stokey38]

Hello, had a quick question about the newish nursery that my DD is attending. We have been sending our DD (2) to a new nursery since and April & very happy with level of care that she is receiving and she has settled in well. My question is about her daily written records throughout the day. In both her old nursery and her childminder prior to that they used to keep a written record of how much she has eaten, how long she has slept for for how many dirty nappies she had. They don't seem to do this at my new nursery and I thought it was either an EYFS / OFSTED requirement but I may well be very wrong on that and just something they chose to do.The other thing is that they don't seem to have anywhere for me to store my buggy during the day and I have to leave it outside. I assume most of the other mums drive so don't leave a buggy but I would have thought that it was a requirement but again maybe not. Also as it's a new nursery does anyone know how long it usually is before they will receive a visit from OFSTED?
Thank you, as I say my DD is happy, it's just some of the admin etc I was unhappy with.

Don't know about the OFSTED side of things, but my nursery has started giving oral feedback - they write up (sometimes) what activities the children have been doing and then tell me about sleep and nappies when I arrive to pick dd up. If they are busy this doesn't always happen. DD seems happy, so no big deal. I think that in the rooms for over 3s this is more common as the child:staff ratio gets lower. The only real issue is we have no written record of needing to get new nappies etc, and I have to rely on dh who does the drop off to remember to tell them anything relevant, like if granny is going to pick her up, whereas before I could write in her book.

We also have to leave buggy outside, it is under a shelter, alongside all the nursery buggies - we have a very, very old tired looking buggy, but if it was newer I'd invest in a buggy lock.

I don't think my nursery is the most organised, dd was in an OFSTED judged outstanding nursery before and that was very on the ball, but she seems happy and tbh with the hours I work there aren't really any choices.

HTH

I believe nurseries will have their first inspection within about 6 months of opening.

Written records for parents are useful for when a child is young, but I notice that the older a child gets the less parents care about records. I used to put a bit of thought into what I wrote so that with the odd distraction, a daily sheet would take about 3 or 4 minutes to write. Multiply by 24 children. To have a member of staff spending an hour writing sheets which we knew would get binned by nearly all parents seemed a bit of a waste, especially when you talk to the parent at picking up times and tell them everything anyway.

They may not have thought of a buggy shed/locker yet. They ARE new. Suggest it. Maybe a big one staff could keep bikes in as well?