this is a very good idea Sarah, not sure you can use these as quotes but here goes anyway. take anything from it that is useful
I'm opposed to deregulation for 3 main (but 3 of many) reasons
1. those minders who used to plan nothing, do nothing, not interact or observe their children before will be given free reign to going back to that way of working with no-one checking that they at least have the bare minimum knowledge of where those children are at, and what they need to do to support their development. Although the EYFS doesn't tackle the lack of interaction as Ofsted have no way of knowing one way of the other!) at least they have to observe and plan some activities based on the children's interests and stages and evidence it.
2. I want to follow the EYFS (but would be happy losing some of the paperwork). If parents thought we did not, they would choose nursery over us - so business would not be sustainable.
3. If we have our network inspected, we will be either pulling up the grades of others, or our hard work will be downgraded by a lack of work on the part of others. so the network may only be mediocre. Another scenario here is that the network co-ordinator is hopeless, the network will not be graded well regardless of the minders working within it.
4. If there is a network, THEY should take on the role of inspecting - again a whole scenario of nightmare network co-ordinators comes up - are they qualified to inspect minders etc, etc.
if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got
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