Glowing report despite rating
OFSTED INSPECTORS have given a nursery in Hebden Bridge an inadequate rating despite an otherwise glowing report because information about its board members was not passed on soon enough.
The education watchdog team who visited Crossley Mill Nursery highlighted a multitude of positives about the nursery, such as staff promoting communication and languge skills well, how valued it is by parents and the community, the strong relationships that staff build with children and how well workers support children’s social and emotional development.
The inspectors did also say that staff could do more to adapt teaching during play to meet development stages of all children but it was because the management board had failed to provide Ofsted with the required information about all its members “in a timely manner” that an inadequate rating was given.
“This prevents Ofsted from completing the necessary suitability checks for the individuals involved in making decisions that affect children who attend the nursery,” said the report.
A spokesman for Crossley Mill Nursery said: “Ofsted had found that we had not registered some new board members, who are all parent volunteers and all of whom had completed their DBS criminal record check successfully, with Ofsted quickly enough.
“This is classed by Ofsted as an automatic overall Inadequate rating, irrespective of the wider quality of provision. The situation has already been corrected and new processes put in place.”
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