Quality Care

At Little Oaks Nurseries we believe that all children and staff grow and develop through regular training and meetings. Parent’s evenings are held every six months and give the parents the opportunity to discuss their childs progress and development with their key person. This time enables parents to look through their child’s record of achievements and to look at the children and staffs’ work within the nursery. Parents evenings offer parents the opportunity to learn about the nursery's use of makaton, visual time tables, to look at nursery menus and to ensure we are all working in partnership together.



The staff team have monthly staff meetings out of nursery hours and enable the staff to grow and develop as a team. This is a time for staff to discuss any issues and to look at their key children’s development and implement this within the nursery’s weekly planning. The staff go on regular training in all areas such as first aid, speech and language, planning, behavior management and makaton. All staff at Little Oaks go on at least three training courses a year to ensure they achieve their own goals as well as team ones.

Little Oaks Policy Documents

• Admissions Policy
• Behaviour Management Policy

• Child Protection Policy
• Child Sickness Policy

• Complaints Procedure Policy
• Confidentiallity Policy

• Equality and Diversity Policy
• Food and Drink Policy

• Health and Safety Policy

• Missing Child Policy
• Partnership with Parents Policy

• Special Educational Needs /Disability Policy
• Sun Safety Policy
  
• The Non Collection of Children Policy
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  Operational Plan
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Ofsted Inspections .
Inspection is at the heart of the government's drive for high quality public services and helps to ensure that the users and providers of public services have the information they need. Ofsted use evidence to advise on approaches to caring for and supporting children and on the effectiveness of different types of educational provision. Ofsted also assess the progress of particular initiatives and government strategies.

We are inspected and regulated by Ofsted, all our staff are checked by the Criminal Records Bureau in accordance with the Children’s Act 1989. On our last inspection we achieved an overall good in all areas during our Ofsted inspection.
95 % of our staff hold relevant childcare qualifications and the remaining staff will be working towards their childcare qualification. All our staff receives regular training to ensure high quality childcare is provided throughout the nursery.

Read the latest Ofsted Inspection Report for Little Oaks Islingword Road Nursery

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Our Quality Programme
A quality assurance programme is essential to the success of any business. To make a difference, good quality practice must be adopted by management, room supervisors and instilled within an organisation's culture. Quality is not just about implementing a system or working towards a set standard. It is an attitude, a way of working, which not only improves service but also enhances the way people work and live".
At Little Oaks Nurseries we will adopt a Quality Programme which will examine and continuously improve the way we do things. Setting targets, measuring service and rewarding staff performance will be at the heart of everything we do. If we can retain motivated and skilled staff, this will have positive benefits for your children, staff, parents and everyone within our setting.
Our programme will be based around best practices appropriate to the childcare sector and will include the following:

• QUILT (Quality in Learning and Teaching) in conjunction with the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership. 
• TQM (Total Quality Management) based around the experience brought to the nursery by Roy Nightingale, Jo Dennett, Emma Brooks (maternity leave), Laura Tyson, Katrina Bristow, and Eleanor Gould.
• Ongoing staff training.

As a nursery owner, manager, nursery worker or as a parent or child, a quality accreditation scheme has far reaching benefits.
If you require full copies of our Policies and Procedures please ask a staff member.