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Thanks very much Ben

Hi, In light of the new proposals for funded places for one year olds and upwards from September, Im considering starting to accept under twos. Is there an application process with OFSTED? At the moment we take two years upwards. Or do we just assess our premises, resources, staff etc and inform OFSTED of the change? I'm thinking 18 months plus rather than younger than that. Thank you.

Sorry, I mean I agree with you Mouseketeer

Yes I think the same Cath. It’s such a problem finding staff now, especially qualified ones 😞

Yes, quite depressing and demoralising

Yes! It’s hard to recruit anyone vaguely suitable, and even harder to find anyone qualified.

Thanks Helen - I had thought I remembered something about ‘working towards’ but it was from many years ago.

Hello, Can someone 'working towards' either a level 2 or level 3 qualification count in the '50% of other staff' requirement? I can't find anything definitive about it. Thank you

Thank you

Hi, I've just started entering data into the new booking system and it looks like it will be really useful. It would be great to be able to edit the register, as we normally have extra columns for Key Person, lunches etc - will this be possible at some point? I assume invoices will be added at some point as well? Thank you

Thank you - I've asked them for a test but didn't realise about the day eight test.

Thanks for the reply - not rambling! I've asked for dates and will see what they say. They have got family reasons to be fair and went there before it was red list so have been stuck for a while. But I am quite concerned as you can imagine!

Hi Do you require some sort of proof of hotel quarantine having been completed and/or a negative COVID test before allowing a child to return to nursery after travelling from a red list country? Thank you A

Jeez ☹️ Just getting worse and worse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-55977904?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=60217c67f1296a02de3a8b8e%26Can Early Years workers get regular Covid tests%3F%262021-02-08T18%3A05%3A00.332Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:f51a9031-e177-43df-881c-ec73a291ae8d&pinned_post_asset_id=60217c67f1296a02de3a8b8e&pinned_post_type=share apparently we will get them as part of the roll out of tests to businesses with over 50 employees - err, how many early years settings have over 50 employees?? 🙄