Do you keep your certificates in your hallway

**Jelly Baby** · 20-02-2010, 01:29 PM

For when parents walk in or just pop them up when ofsted come?!
I know a few who hate their houses looking like an office so don't put them up. I have recently redcorated all our hall and it is nice and new looking without the certificates up, usually have:

Insurance
Ofsted certificate
food hygiene
child protection
parents poster
my foundation courses x 2
think theres another but the above are all A4 so takes up quite a bit of room!

So shall i put them up or not?! (had my parents for years now so they all know i'm up to date as such!

**Hebs** · 20-02-2010, 01:32 PM

i dont cos it is my home

I have them in my file that all parents see, and i show them the updates ins and ncma ones when i got them.

Ofsted ins was fine with my explination as to why they arnt on display, even if they werent happy i wont put them up cos it is MY home

**janminder** · 20-02-2010, 01:38 PM

Yes I have certificates etc. in my hall:

Registration Certificate
Food Hygeine
First Aid
NCMA Insurance
Gas Check
Smoke Alarm and Fire Drill Dates
School Holiday Dates

like you had most my parents for years but think its a good idea to keep them there. My doors into the hallway are covered in picture posters, world map, uk map etc also.

**jelly15** · 20-02-2010, 01:38 PM

Have them up in playroom so I can shut the door when not minding and forget about work.

**Pudding Girl** · 20-02-2010, 01:41 PM

I was under the impression that we had to have them displayed by law? Is that not the case?

I have mine behind my front door on the wall so nobody can see the details from outside.

**Allie** · 20-02-2010, 01:44 PM

I have Ofsted insurance and copies of all my qualifications (they fade) in the playroom along with fire evacuation brief instructions voucher scheme info

Allie

**Mouse** · 20-02-2010, 01:45 PM

I've got a bookcase in my hall & on the side of it I've got my registration certificate, my outstanding provider certificate, my insurance certificate, my first aid certificate, Ofsted poster, welcome poster & something else that I can't remember off the top of my head!

They're all A4 & fit nicely down the side of the bookcase. I don't mind them being there. The side of the case faces the front door, not into the hall, so you only really see them as you walk through the door. I wouldn't want them on the wall where they were in full view all the time.

**Hebs** · 20-02-2010, 01:54 PM

the only one i have up is the ofsted complaints one

**Mouse** · 20-02-2010, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Hebs

i dont cos it is my home

I have them in my file that all parents see, and i show them the updates ins and ncma ones when i got them.

Ofsted ins was fine with my explination as to why they arnt on display, even if they werent happy i wont put them up cos it is MY home

Do you not have your registration certificate on display? Were Ofsted OK about that?
I thought we had to have our certificate & the Ofsted parent poster up.

**nokidshere** · 20-02-2010, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Mouse

Do you not have your registration certificate on display? Were Ofsted OK about that?
I thought we had to have our certificate & the Ofsted parent poster up.

I refuse to display certificates and stuff in my hallway. Inspector asked me where it was and I told her in the folder in my office. When she said I should have it on display I asked her why and she couldn't tell me. (Because Ofsted say so isn't a good enough reason as far as I am concerned)

My reasons for not having it are:
All my parents get a copy in their welcome folder
The folder is available to all of my parents at any time
I do not get passing trade
No-one in the setting needs to see it (ie the children)

Having discussed this with her she couldn't give any real reason why it needs to be there so it isn't. She did not mark it down as an action which would indicate that its not one of their jumped up "legal" requirements!!!

**Hebs** · 20-02-2010, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by nokidshere

I refuse to display certificates and stuff in my hallway. Inspector asked me where it was and I told her in the folder in my office. When she said I should have it on display I asked her why and she couldn't tell me. (Because Ofsted say so isn't a good enough reason as far as I am concerned)

My reasons for not having it are:
All my parents get a copy in their welcome folder
The folder is available to all of my parents at any time
I do not get passing trade
No-one in the setting needs to see it (ie the children)

Having discussed this with her she couldn't give any real reason why it needs to be there so it isn't. She did not mark it down as an action which would indicate that its not one of their jumped up "legal" requirements!!!

exactly, this is MY home.
I told her all my certificates are in my file which ALL parents see before signing contracts,
i DO have the parent poster up, but only as it looks "kiddified" but i refused to have the others up on display, my ofsted inspector was fine with it

**christine e** · 20-02-2010, 02:14 PM

I have mine (reg cert and parents poster) on display in my kitchen. I do not like the idea of having them in my hallway as anyone standing on my doorstep can see that I am a childminder and I don't like that idea from a child protection point of view.

Cx

**Mouse** · 20-02-2010, 02:16 PM

That's interesting to know. I've never really queried it before, just done it.

I'm happy to have mine up though. At least I know where they are. I have a habit of losing paperwork if I file it away

**PixiePetal** · 20-02-2010, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by Hebs

exactly, this is MY home.
I told her all my certificates are in my file which ALL parents see before signing contracts,
i DO have the parent poster up, but only as it looks "kiddified" but i refused to have the others up on display, my ofsted inspector was fine with it

Friends have been told if they don't have certificate up, they will be inadequate!

**Hebs** · 20-02-2010, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by PixiePetal

Friends have been told if they don't have certificate up, they will be inadequate!

i got graded GOOD and she was ok with me not having them on display.

**singingcactus** · 20-02-2010, 02:38 PM

I have mine up but as I have said before I don't have a pretty home - it looks more like a students digs lol, with posters and all sorts up. I don't like having it up though because it is ugly and plain and boring and the bluey green colour is ugly.
If I had a pretty home I would really resent being told what I had to have on my walls especially when there is no point to displaying it. No one sees it when it is on the wall, in a folder they would get to easily see it while they look through all the other junk we have to have

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**wendywu** · 20-02-2010, 02:41 PM

They have to be displayed. That is different from being up on the wall.
They could for example be out on the top of a side board to be displayed.

**Mollymop** · 20-02-2010, 02:46 PM

naughty naught very naughty

- they HAVE to be displayed at all times for the parents. If ofsted decided to pop in for any reason and you didn't have your insurance and registration, parents poster , etc displayed you will be in trouble

I have mine in the hallway on the wall . x

**singingcactus** · 20-02-2010, 03:01 PM

You don't have to have your insurance displayed, you just have to have it.

**Chatterbox Childcare** · 20-02-2010, 03:01 PM

As part of our registration we must have the parent poster and certificate of registration on view at all times. My parents get a copy of both and updates as they change so i don't display them all the time.

For official visits I have a cork board which hangs over the top of my photograph in the hallway and then it comes down again

Another necessity which we could all do without.