Early Years Setting Management
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Open Day
by Guest- 3 replies
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Hi all Im having an easter egg open day on sunday 5th april, hoping to get new children!!! Does anyone have any ideas or great places to advertise that works well for them (free if pssible!!!!) We are located in Esher/Thames ditton area. Thanks everyone Ice
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New Safeguarding Regulation 1 2
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Hi all I don't recall seeing anything about this on here but apologies if it's already been covered. It appears that as from October 2009 new regulations come into force regarding the employment of staff and volunteers working with children and vunerable people. Anyone working with these groups will have to be registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority (and pay £64 for the privilage - although volunteers are free. This will also include committee members. Propsective employees must apply first and if you employ them before they are registered and cleared you can be fined up to £5000 or even imprisoned Current employees without a CRB are n…
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Deputy Position
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HI gUYS, I was wondering if i could pick your brains, in a couple of weeks i am interviewing some staff for a deputy job at our excel nursery. We are going to interview each applicant but would like to also set them a task and would like this to focus on the eyfs. any ideas?
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Change Of Registration Visit
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Hi I'm having a major panic - while I was at uni yesterday my deputy took a phone call from OFSTED, to say they are visiting next week to discuss our change of registration. (Bless her she forgot to mention this in our debrief and sent me a text later.) The children centre in our community centre is having some building work done and I have requested that we increase our hours (currently sessional, but to go to 5hrs a day). Any ideas what I need to produce, show and consider. Bit of nightmare as we are actually having to empty our cupboard that week for the building work - so am very concerned I won't have the right bits to hand as a lot of the paper work is …
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we are a committee run pre-school and the registered person is the chairperson who only picks and drops off her child. As I am running the day to day sessions as the supervisor OFSTED have informed me that I should of had a suitability interview with them and filled out a health declaration booklet and a DC02 form . I have now done this and they have rung to say they have flagged us as under investigations. The woman was very abrupt and most dis pleased. ( I have been running the setting for 18 months.) She also said my CRB is not valid as it is 3 years old. Do we have to update the staff CRB checks every 3 years? the supervisor before me didn't fill in these forms et…
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I have an assistant who will soon be getting a state pension. The joint ammount of her wage together with pension will make her liable for income tax. Whose responsibility will it be to deduct the tax.
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Ofsted Reports
by Guest- 7 replies
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Hi, i was just wondering if any other childminders had come across prospective parents who asked to take away copies of our ofsted inspection reports. I have recently found out that we have to give them one. Does anyone else have any concerns with this as for us childminders they do include personal information, our full address, registration no etc which could be used to claim tax credits.
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Committee Or Trustees?
by Guest- 10 replies
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Hi We are a small rural playgroup which is presently supposedly ran by a committee. Due to lack of interest from committee members it has been suggested to me to look towards having Trustees. Does anyone have any experience of this? Does it work or just cause more headaches? Where can I find more information. Does it affect your charity status. All help gratefully received. Chocoholic
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Employment Policy
by Guest- 7 replies
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Hi, I just wondered if anyone has a policy in place about the amount of time off an employee takes every year, we have a member of staff who reg takes off 3 days a month, phones in sick every month, other staff are getting quite fed up, i wondered if it was possible to have a policy that says 3% over the year etc... or is this wishful thinking!!!!
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Gross Misconduct
by Guest- 6 replies
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Do we have to inform Ofsted if we dismiss a person for gross misconduct even if it doesn't involve children. We dismissed a member of staff recently because of a breakdown of trust. Thanks.
