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Understand current legislation and regulation in relation to home based childcare

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Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.

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Click on the icon to the left to access the document Information Sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers’.
Since government devolution the individual countries of the UK have taken responsibility for their own safeguarding legislation. The NSPCC has produced a series of factsheets that summarise safeguarding legislation by country. Click on the icon to the left to access these.
Take a look at other guidance and sources of information that are available. Suggestions are included in Appendix B of ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children’. Click on the icon to the left to access this.
Click on the icon to the left to explore the website of the Food Standards Agency.
If you do not already have one, click on the icon to the left to download a copy of the FSA’s guidance ‘Safer Food, Better Business for Childminders’.
Click on this link to read about Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 from the HSE website.
Click on link to read more from Gov.UK on Childminder agencies.
‘The young person’s guide to the Children and Families Act’ from the Department for Education gives a quick breakdown of which areas this legislation covers.
You must tell Ofsted about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home you look after children in within 14 days. This includes children who turn 16.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare within 14 days.

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