Birmingham Community Childrens Centre

Activities: For example, babies show an interest in rolling the felt pens and staff swiftly offer a range of balls, which babies delight in exploring and rolling.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: Staff place a sharp focus on helping children increase their communication and language skills and manage their feelings and behavior.

Communication: Staff from the outset work closely with parents to identify children's starting points and regularly assess their progress. They effectively use this information and any targets set by other professionals working with children to help identify precise next steps in learning.

Community Building: Parents attend numerous workshops to help increase their knowledge of how to support their children.

Programs and Resources: All children attending have special educational needs and/or disabilities. Their assigned staff have a deep knowledge of their specific needs and they receive high levels of emotional support to help them take part. Systems to help settle new children are carefully tailored to each child's unique needs.

Staff Training: For example, staff confidently use photos, picture cards, sign language, and puppets to help them communicate.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: Children, including babies, form close attachments with staff and enjoy their interactions.

Safeguarding Training: Staff have a good understanding of child protection and the procedures to follow if they have a concern about a child.

Play and Learning Integration: They show sustained levels of interest in their play and thoroughly enjoy the sensory experiences on offer. For example, babies enjoy using hammers with the dough and are fascinated with the lights in the sensory room.

Transition to Primary School: Staff fully understand that working closely with parents is crucial to their success with children. Parents attend numerous workshops to help increase their knowledge of how to support their children.

Child Safety Management: Staff carry out daily checks to ensure the environment, equipment, and activities are risk-assessed for the needs of children attending each session.

Children's Safety and Security: The high ratio of staff to children results in children being supervised extremely well at all times.

Happiness and Settling: Systems to help settle new children are carefully tailored to each child's unique needs.