A nursery where children were found eating baby lotion handed to them by staff is now a “setting full of smiles” after major improvements.
Barton day nursery at Lower Lane in Fazakerley was slammed as inadequate when inspected by Ofsted in June this year.
A damning report found a series of failings at the nursery, including around the use of messy play materials.
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The report noted: “Babies under one year old are given baby lotion to explore, which is subsequently eaten. This compromises the health and safety of young children.”
Other issues identified included ineffective risk assessments and problems with staff supervision and training, which led to “inconsistencies in the quality of care and education that children receive across the nursery.”
Following the report, one staff member spoke of being “distraught” at the findings and a determination to turn things around for the nursery, which had been running in Fazakerley for nearly 30 years.
Owner of Barton nurseries, Christine Barton said at the time: “All staff have since taken the relevant risk assessment training and we are confident that our next inspection will paint a truer picture of our setting as a whole.”
Just over six months on from the damning inspection and the situation appears to have changed dramatically for the nursery.
An Ofsted report released yesterday following an inspection carried out in November upgraded the rating of the nursery from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’.
The report praised the “dedicated leadership team” which had “worked hard with the staff to address weaknesses raised at the previous inspection.”
It noted that inspectors found at the nursery, which caters for children up to four years of age, a “safe and stimulating setting full of smiles” where “toddlers and pre-school children demonstrate high levels of self-confidence and self-esteem.”
With improvements including the use of targeted supervision, robust risk assessments and a focus on staff training, the report said the changes implemented “have had a positive impact on the quality of education provided for all children who attend.”
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