Hope Richard doesn't mind me butting in again
I hope it will help him when considering all these great ideas. Using Ofsted numbers to get access to member areas has been suggested quite often but I cannot see how it would work.
The hardest part of using your Ofsted reg number to log in would be proving it was yours. How would Richard know ,or be able to check, that the person claiming to be a registered childminder with number 123456 was indeed who they said they were?
For instance, I could go on the Ofsted website now and find a registration number, from the report I could gain a good idea of where that person was from but there is nothing that would confirm the name of the childminder so I could come along here, claim to be the childminder from Anytown with registration number 123456 and get access to the member area that you suggest. But the real owner would then be locked out.
Or I might even know a childminder's number, where s/he lived and even their name. I could be another childminder, a parent, someone malicious - I could get here before them and be registered as her/him before they came along. There are some devious people out there
Does that make sense?
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