Miriam
06-03-2009, 01:37 PM
Hi All
This may sound really stupid and maybe I am being thick but I am really confused about my Ofsted application form where it asks about provision and how many children of each age I am going to care for.
I understand that I can only care for a maximum of six children under eight and of those only one can be under one, and that I have to take my own two children into consideration. I also want to be able to fit them all in my car which is a seven seater, but one of those seats is for me, so in total I can only have six children (if Ofsted let me).
So that makes one under a year plus my own one who is only 6 so counts in my numbers. So taking into consideration the car issue I can only have another three children, but I don't have any children lined up at the moment (lost the one who I was going to mind as this process is taking so long!) so how do I know what ages I am going to be minding to fill in the form? Because it ask for a breakdown of age group and how many you are going to mind???? I also want to go on the register for over 8's but again it all depends what enquiries I get as to what ages the children are that I end up minding. Am very confused.
Can anyone advise me what they put on their form?
Also who are the awarding body for the paediatric first aid course - it doesn't say on my certificate?
Help! Thanks
Miriam
This may sound really stupid and maybe I am being thick but I am really confused about my Ofsted application form where it asks about provision and how many children of each age I am going to care for.
I understand that I can only care for a maximum of six children under eight and of those only one can be under one, and that I have to take my own two children into consideration. I also want to be able to fit them all in my car which is a seven seater, but one of those seats is for me, so in total I can only have six children (if Ofsted let me).
So that makes one under a year plus my own one who is only 6 so counts in my numbers. So taking into consideration the car issue I can only have another three children, but I don't have any children lined up at the moment (lost the one who I was going to mind as this process is taking so long!) so how do I know what ages I am going to be minding to fill in the form? Because it ask for a breakdown of age group and how many you are going to mind???? I also want to go on the register for over 8's but again it all depends what enquiries I get as to what ages the children are that I end up minding. Am very confused.
Can anyone advise me what they put on their form?
Also who are the awarding body for the paediatric first aid course - it doesn't say on my certificate?
Help! Thanks
Miriam