Hi all I want someone to settle an argument between my friend and I.
I am under the understanding that the maximum number of children I can care for is 6 children under the age of 8 of which no more than 3 can be in the early years age group. my friend however has a 17mth old baby and her certificate says she can mind 5 children 3 of which can be in the early years age group. I thought it should read 2 because of her son. so she rang Ofsted and asked because she had the opportunity to take on a extra child taking the total children in her care to 4 under 5's including her son Ofsted agreed that her certificate said she could mind 3 children plus her son so that was fine. I questioned this as I said how can that be I have turned down work because if would take me to over 4 under 5's and so I called Ofsted to say well I want the same numbers was mine wrong to which they replied no. you cannot have 4 under 5's unless you have a variation!!! so my friend called back to double check and they said she was fine to carry on and that different minders are allowed numbers taking into consideration her house size etc(mine is bigger) so confused it does not seem fair has anyone heard of this I thought the numbers were set for all am I wrong
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