Nursery which failed to ensure staff are ‘suitable’ to work with children rated as ‘inadequate’ yet again

A nursery which failed to ensure staff were ‘suitable’ to work with children has been rated ‘inadequate’ for the second time in under a year.

All Aboard Nursery, in Stockport, has been awarded the lowest possible grade following an inspection by the education watchdog Ofsted. The day care centre at Whitfield House looks after 40 youngsters from babies up to four-year-olds.

Officials say children are ‘happy and settled’ at the Daw Bank nursery, as well as being confident and capable learners who behave well. But they also found it to be inadequate in all areas, from quality of education to personal development.

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A highly critical new report says there are ‘ significant weaknesses’ in safeguarding practices at the nursery.

It continues: “The provider has failed to ensure that all staff are suitable to work with children. Not all staff understand their responsibilities to help keep children safe. This puts children at risk of harm.”

The watchdog found that poor planning and implementation prevented children from making good progress in their learning - particularly ‘those who speak English as an additional language’. Some staff did not know children well enough, so were unable to plan activities that built on their prior knowledge. As a result, children were ‘not sufficiently challenged’ and quickly lost interest in learning.

The report adds: “There is a significant lack of exciting and challenging activities. This means that children become bored and frequently not engaged in purposeful learning.”

However, older children in the prep-school room were said to have more opportunities to develop new skills, and