Specialist Early Years Deep Dive Audits
Targeted quality reviews and scenario-based training needs analysis to bridge the gap between compliance, room-level practice, and staff confidence.
Quality Assurance Audit:
Operational Health Check
6-hour operational health check ensuring your nursery is 100% safe, legal, and compliant across all statutory EYFS requirements before an official inspection call.
- Statutory & Health Safety: SCR vetting, safer recruitment, food hygiene, red plate allergy systems, and COSHH compliance.
- Curriculum & Environment: Serve-and-return interaction observations, learning journey reviews, and open-ended resource checks.
- SEND & Governance: SENCo file audits, 1-to-1 supervision logs, fire safety readiness, and digital privacy checks.
SEND & Inclusion
Diagnostic Review
Move beyond basic paperwork with a deep-dive diagnostic that identifies the gap between written support plans and the child’s lived reality on the nursery floor.
- Identification & Paperwork Pipeline: Audit SENCo files, Records of Concern, 2-Year Progress Checks, and assess/plan response speeds.
- Live Room Observations (Interaction Tally): 90-minute immersion observing active room-level use of Makaton, visual aids, and sensory adaptations.
- Funding & Specialist Trace: Forensic check of Disability Access Funding (DAF) and EYPP investments, ensuring external agency advice (SALT/Physio) is actively used.
- Leadership & Inclusion Culture: 1-on-1 interviews with SENCo and staff to test floor-level knowledge and Equality Act compliance.
Safeguarding Health Check
A comprehensive 4-stage digital deep-dive into your Single Central Record (SCR), personnel files, safeguarding policies, and staff competency to ensure your setting is inspection-proof.
- Statutory Personnel & SCR Review: Remote audit verifying DBS numbers, Right to Work evidence, Section 128 management checks, references, and employment gap logs.
- Policy & Procedure Deep-Dive: Framework review of Safeguarding, Low-Level Concerns, Whistleblowing, current MASH/LADO contacts, and Smart Device policies.
- Training & Staff Competency Check: Audit of DSL Level 3 matrix and 15-minute remote staff interviews testing "on-the-ground" knowledge of neglect signs and reporting lines.
- Chronology & Record-Keeping: Audit of Concern Logs (CPOMS or paper) ensuring referrals have documented outcomes and GDPR-compliant storage.
Staff Development &
Skills Gap Analysis
Uncover your team’s true confidence gaps with a 100% anonymous, scenario-based questionnaire and receive a data-driven 1-year staff development roadmap tailored to your setting.
- 100% Anonymous Staff Survey: Evaluates staff confidence across real everyday nursery scenarios—including trauma practice (PACE), micro-steps, behaviour de-escalation, safeguarding, and low-level concerns.
- Data-Driven Analysis & Matrix: Delivers an individual and group percentage breakdown highlighting exact areas needing full training versus refreshers or strengths.
- Customised Training Recommendations: Maps out targeted, floor-ready workshops covering Micro-Steps & Curriculum, Trauma-Informed Practice, Inclusive Communication (BSL/Makaton), SEND, and Staff Wellbeing & Boundaries.