Erika
29-03-2010, 07:35 PM
Hi guys I write as a parent, not a childminder. My (lovely) childminder had her inspection, during which the inspector noticed my daughter is not like other kids her age. Childminder explained that she has a disability which affects her co-ordination and has speech and language delay and gets occupational therapy and speech and language therapy to help with this. Well, the inspector has told my childminder that she has to "do things" (what things she didn't specify) with my daughter to help with her condition and she must write all of this down, including details of the professional therapy she gets. Childminder was a bit put out that she is expected to do therapy with DD and set up care plans for this and I agree with her wholeheartedly.
For goodness sake, she has 5 kids to look after all at the same time, in between school runs and all the ridiculous amounts of paperwork she has to contend with - she has enough to do as it is, without having to provide therapy too! Additionally, my childminder (though excellent) is not a therapist. Quite how they expect her to devise a plan of care for something she is not qualified in is beyond me.
Further, my daughters therapy is given by the therapists in school and I am also provided with exercises to do at home with her. The instructions I get from her therapists specify how many minutes of therapy for how many days and the type of therapy - this can vary from one week to the next. One thing that they have stressed to me is never to go over the time limits set as too much will be counter-productive to DD. So I have several reasons why my childminder should not be doing therapy aside from the fact that she shouldn't be ****** well expected to. It's 1:1 therapy too. I'm also quite funny about unessecery information being held about my children and don't feel that it's any of the Care Commision's business. My daughter's therapy is between me and her therapists. Even the school don't interfere with it, the therapists attend, do what they need to do and leave. Sure the childminder can write down on DD's personal file that she has a disability and receives therapy but that's all that is needed as far as I am concerned as her disability doesn't require anything other than what a "normal" child requires whilst at the childminder; she doesn't require specialist care.
Childminder advised me that the Care Commision are quite draconion when it comes to these matters and she'll get marked down next time if she doesn't do it, unless I specifically request this is not done. I told her that I would write a letter to the Care Commission about it.
so guys, I am looking for as many childminder's perspectives on this as I can get, to give me ideas of what to put in the letter.
For goodness sake, she has 5 kids to look after all at the same time, in between school runs and all the ridiculous amounts of paperwork she has to contend with - she has enough to do as it is, without having to provide therapy too! Additionally, my childminder (though excellent) is not a therapist. Quite how they expect her to devise a plan of care for something she is not qualified in is beyond me.
Further, my daughters therapy is given by the therapists in school and I am also provided with exercises to do at home with her. The instructions I get from her therapists specify how many minutes of therapy for how many days and the type of therapy - this can vary from one week to the next. One thing that they have stressed to me is never to go over the time limits set as too much will be counter-productive to DD. So I have several reasons why my childminder should not be doing therapy aside from the fact that she shouldn't be ****** well expected to. It's 1:1 therapy too. I'm also quite funny about unessecery information being held about my children and don't feel that it's any of the Care Commision's business. My daughter's therapy is between me and her therapists. Even the school don't interfere with it, the therapists attend, do what they need to do and leave. Sure the childminder can write down on DD's personal file that she has a disability and receives therapy but that's all that is needed as far as I am concerned as her disability doesn't require anything other than what a "normal" child requires whilst at the childminder; she doesn't require specialist care.
Childminder advised me that the Care Commision are quite draconion when it comes to these matters and she'll get marked down next time if she doesn't do it, unless I specifically request this is not done. I told her that I would write a letter to the Care Commission about it.
so guys, I am looking for as many childminder's perspectives on this as I can get, to give me ideas of what to put in the letter.