Ofsted Nursery report

[helenlouisey]

Hi, am just looking for a nursery for my DS and one which I found and really liked, I now slightly worried by their Ofsted report, it was satisfactory but some of the recommendations made over a year ago still hadn't been implemented (such as introducing a visitor signing in and out book) and the report notes that two complaints had been made about nursery. These complaints are the thing that really worry me for two reasons, firstly it's a very small nursery, approx 35 - 40 children so for 2 complaints to be to Ofsted seems quite high, and the nature of the complaints were worrying, one related to unvetted people transporting children on day trips away from the nursery and the second centred around staff turnover and staff to children ratio, which is what had initially attracted me to the nursery so am now wondering whether the nursery were being completely honest with me with regards to to what their staff turnover is and staff to children ratio.

Would these things worry you? My husband wants to speak to the owner about these issues, I however am worried they will tell us what we want to hear rather than the truth, I suppose I'm not sure whether to trust anything that was said to me on my visit there.

Thanks

DONT TOUCH IT!

I wouldn't be happy. Poor Staff to child ratios and the use of unvetted people supervising children are two fundemental child safety issues.

If they are still not implementing serious recommendations made a year ago, I wouldn't really trust them tbh.

It may be closed down on the next inspection and then you would be stuck!

Two complaints? I wouldn't go near it.

Hi sounds a bit ropey - with regard to unvetted people accompanying children this is one of the most fundamental requirements of any childcare provider - I am astounded that anyone in this day and age needs to be pulled up on it, as for the signing in /out book how hard is it to print off a spreadsheet to put names/times on must take all of 5mins what worries me more than anything is that these recommendations were over a year ago and still not put in place the management obv dont care - Ofsted have a duty to enforce the actions of any complaint and they will normally carry out another inspection a year from the initial one (this applies if an action was raised) I guess they arnt going to be to happy when they call back my advice would be to find a different nursery one that has a visitor sign in log and asks you to wear a visitor badge , both of which are good signs that they take the safety of children in their care seriously. Good luck

It doesn't sound good - a satisfactory report isn't that good to start with, and two complaints is a lot! I would look elsewhere.

Look elsewhere! Even pre-schools have signing in and out books and visitor books and we have only 16 children.
Actions like that, should have been done straight away!
High staff turnover is another indicator of poor morale, not a good environment for young children.