Understand how to set up a home-based childcare service
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Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage’ from the Department for Education
- 'Business smart for childminders’ produced by the Professional Association of Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
- 'Childminder policies and templates’ from Wigan Council
- 'Laser reading text: Current legislation and regulation in relation to home based childcare
- 'Regulation of services on Childcare Register Updated 1 April 2022’ from Ofsted
- Presentation
- There are two presentations for you to view for this lesson. Click on the icons below in turn to launch them.
- 'So you want to be a home-based childcare practitioner?'
- 'Creating policies and procedures'
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Children and Families Act 2014 from the Gov.UK website. This press release contains information about the new Act and links to further sources of information.
- ‘Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’ from the Information Commissioner’s Office. The Guide to the GDPR explains the provisions of the GDPR to help organisations comply with its requirements. It is for those who have day-to-day responsibility for data protection.
- Click to read the relevant sections of Working Together to Safeguard Children’ published by the Department for Education and highlight where this document refers to actions that are your responsibility as a childcare practitioner and notice that this document considers the wider needs of children, not just child protection.
- Click to download a copy of the FSA’s guidance ‘Safer Food, Better Business for Childminders’.
- Click to read about Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 from the HSE website.
- Click to read more from Gov.UK on Childminder agencies.
- Think And Challenge
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