{"content":[{"text":"Summary \n About the service \n Sunflowers Nursery (Usk) Limited is registered with Care and Social Services Inspectorate \n Wales (CSSIW) to provide day care for up to 26 children under 8 years at any one time. \n The group operates from its own premises in the town of Usk. The service runs during \n term time and offers full or half day sessions for children between 2 and 4 years. This is \n predominately an English language service with some use of Welsh. The Responsible \n Individual (RI), Karla Brake, has overall responsibility for the service on behalf of the \n company and manages the group on a day to day basis. The service is a registered \n provider of Early Years Education for Monmouthshire County Council.","bbox":{"left":0.090766,"top":0.046187,"width":0.8057059999999999,"height":0.185044}},{"text":"What type of inspection was carried out? \n This was a scheduled, focused inspection which looked mainly at the quality of life theme. \n The visit to the service was unannounced. The findings in this report were based on: \n  general observations of child care practices, activities and routines of the session \n  discussion with the RI and other staff \n  a brief visual check of the premises \n  scrutiny of documentation held by CSSIW, including the previous inspection report \n  observations of the interactions between the staff and children and staff and \n parents \n  use of the SOFI (Short Observation Framework for Inspection) tool which focuses \n on the quality of engagement, mood state and staff interaction experienced by the \n children \n  scrutiny of some documentation held by the group, including planning records and \n children’s learning journals.","bbox":{"left":0.090766,"top":0.251936,"width":0.797944,"height":0.23896900000000004}},{"text":"What does the service do well? \n  Staff are keen to further their professional development by attending relevant \n training courses. \n  The group strives to ensure that children’s individual needs are met through a \n combination of observation and assessment systems, staff meetings, a key worker \n system and working closely with other professionals. Key observations together \n with examples of work and photographs are recorded in individual Learning \n Journals which serve as a celebration of children’s achievements and development \n whilst at the service.","bbox":{"left":0.090766,"top":0.512828,"width":0.7991499999999999,"height":0.1535510000000001}},{"text":"What has improved since the last inspection? \n  A range of new equipment had been provided including new Information \n Technology resources such as a voice changer, microscope and remote control \n cars, an outdoor mark making kit and a new book unit for the book corner. \n  Staff had continued to develop their professional knowledge by attending \n appropriate training courses through Monmouthshire Early Years. In addition, the \n deputy had completed the level 5 in Child Care, Learning and Development and two \n of the staff had embarked on this training. The PiC had completed Forest School \n training.","bbox":{"left":0.090766,"top":0.68706,"width":0.807356,"height":0.1535160000000001}},{"text":"What needs to be done to improve the service? \n There were no areas of non compliance identified at this inspection. No recommendations \n to develop the service were made.","bbox":{"left":0.090766,"top":0.854167,"width":0.806072,"height":0.053145}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}