Sunny Garden

Strengths

• Pedagogical practice is sufficient: staff demonstrate emotional engagement and age-appropriate communication
• New employees receive an induction period and time to study policy documents
• Open culture of addressing concerns within the team
• Domestic violence and child abuse reporting protocol (melcode) is adequately established and staff are familiar with its contents
• Parents are adequately informed about policy and inspection reports
• Active parent committee that is regularly consulted for advice

Shortcomings

• Pedagogical policy must be supplemented with tasks and guidance for volunteers
• Evidence of successful completion of babysitting course must be supplemented
• Procedure regarding merging of groups must be documented more clearly on the schedule
• Water filter system: risks and measures must be structurally inventoried and documented
• Safe sleeping protocol must be harmonised and applied consistently
• Play materials must be made freely accessible to children more frequently
• Atelier space must be arranged safely and accessibly as a usable room

Violations

• Pedagogical policy: missing description of tasks and guidance for volunteers (recidivism: same violation in 2024)
• Staffing and groups: childcare professional not linked to licence holder in PRK before commencing work (recidivism: also in 2023 and 2024)
• Staffing and groups: childcare professional does not meet IKK language requirement, missing 3F certificate
• Staffing and groups: violations in childcare professional-child ratio (BKR) in period 25 May through 12 June 2026 (recidivism: also in 2025 and 2026 at after-school care/BSO)
• Safety and health: insufficiently described risks and measures for water filter system
• Safety and health: safe sleeping protocol deviates from national guidelines, no uniform implementation
• Accommodation: insufficiently appropriately arranged core group rooms, too few challenging play materials (recidivism: same shortcoming in 2025)

Summary

The annual inspection of 15 June 2026 at daycare center (kinderdagverblijf/KDV) Sunny Garden in Almere shows that the location does not meet all quality requirements. Multiple violations were identified, some of which constitute recidivism. The pedagogical practice is carried out sufficiently: staff pay attention to children, work according to policy and create a safe atmosphere. The location provides care for 56 children in 5 horizontal groups. Parents are well informed and there is an active parent committee.