Ok so I have had a brief look through the new requirements.
Here are my first comments / things that immediately spring into my tired and slightly addled brain -
No requirement to ask for permission to seek emergency medical advice or treatment for a child
This was an absolutely meaningless permission anyway!!
No requirement to register as a food business or use SFBB for childminders
I don't believe the EYFS supersedes our responsibility to comply with other legal requirements and now it is compulsory for all childminders to register as a Food Business whereas when first EYFS came out it wasn't so they don't need to make a statement about it now.
No requirement to ask about legal contact details (the parental responsibility one is still there)
I would because we still need to know who has access to the child. It is on my PR form so it will just stay there.
No note that while P & Ps are not required to be in writing (with the usual disclaimers of course) you MUST have certain ones for the Childcare Register anyway!!
How long is a ‘reasonable period of time’ for keeping documents after a child has left then? Answers on a postcard to – why have you thrown that away @ a childminder’s house near you
Keeping certain records until a child is 21yrs old is a requirement of our insurance companies not EYFS it makes sense to keep contracts and info forms as well so you have some hope of remembering who the child/family were if anything cropped up.
No length of time for keeping complaints records... and no requirement for a complaints policy
This is a bit confusing because Ofsted keep records of complaints on our file. Or can we now demand that all complaints that are not upheld are destroyed as soon as they have been resolved?
Nothing to be displayed except registration certificate – what about Ofsted complaints poster and emergency evacuation plan then?
Good question
New requirement to use Working together to safeguard children
New requirement to use Health and Safety at Work Act
New requirement to know about Data Protection Act and Freedom of information Act –
but no requirement to register with ICO
There wasn't in the old EYFS it is a legal requirement outside EYFS so we will still have to register.
New requirement to use Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
Strange statement about English as an Additional Language with nothing to say we should consider parents wishes – so how does that strengthen relationships exactly if parents say teach English and we say sorry we can’t just do that what’s the word for ‘potty’?!?
Any more daft things spotted guys? I'm not seeing anything yet that says it will lessen paperwork or make things easier.
What about you?
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