Just wondering what makes an Ofsted inspector give someone Unsatisfactory?
Is it not happy the paperwork? Not playing with the children? Shouting at them? Is it big things or a collection of little unsatisfactories?
I'm hoping to get satisfactory or even good :)

you have to be pretty awful!

no safeguarding!
no suitable equipment
no paperwork

I would think you would have to get atleast 3 things listed as unsatisfactory in order to gain that status so dont worry about it.

Not having done first aid or letting your cert go out of date:eek:

At our support meeting the other night we were talking about the inadequates in the area and what it is the inspectors have been picking up on
(not having inadequate or any:)

risk assessments
safeguarding procdures or knowing about them
inclusion, equal opps, diversity
development records
health and safety
first aid


of course these areas cover massive sections but to receive an inadequate 1 these areas must be severely lacking (I know having no first aid is an immediate inadequate 1). Inadequate 1 is actions but willing to improve, inadequate 2 is severe problems/actions coupled with bad attitude (- in Pipsqueak language lol).

I am sure you will be fine - after all you are a forum member!!!

Not so much bad, but failing to meet the welfare standards regardless of how much extra good practice yoou do.

Having read your post before you changed it I fell about laughing because I know a minder at my school just like that Blaze.

Not having contracts signed - I know of one cm who did this and was revisited shortly after the inspection to check this had been rectified

M

Having read your post before you changed it I fell about laughing because I know a minder at my school just like that Blaze.

LOL...I decided it wasn't v. helpful!

My friend was minding{before I started and knew what we had to do} and had an inspection.She told me that she got satisfactory so I trawled all the inspection reports to check.

I knew it was bad :laughing: but I didn't know quite how bad!!!

First aid lapsed,no public liability,not enough toys,children she minded had no contracts ,she just did it on an 'ad hoc' basis. The list was endless.Oh yeh,no safe car seats,no xtra ins for car.OMG!!!

She fibbed to me.

I have never told her that I read her report,she is still a very close friend and I love her to bits. She is the sweetest,kindest person and I trust her implicitly with my son.

I just don't think she 'got' the whole minding thing.

Anyway, Ofsted just rapped her knuckles and told her to pull her socks up.

She has since stopped minding saying that 'they' want too much!!!

I think the thing that shocked me most was no public liability.I think that's the most important thing on so many levels.

Sounds like a lady at our school. She regularly minds a baby for 2 days a week and she says its for a friend but she does get paid. She was once a nanny but has the child at her house. She says she won't get registered as she can't be bothered with insurance and paperwork and also that her husband would fail the CRB!
But what can you do? :mad:

A friend of mine got Inadequate and it was all down to paperwork mainly and that her first aid was not uptodate as there hadn't been a course she could get on.

The inspector said with the children and that she could not fault her but said it was down to the paperwork, but I think sometimes it depends on the inspector.