It's my claim they're checking - guessing it's because I'm self employed as I've heard they're clamping down on SE claims (there's been a dramatic increase in people going self employed due to changes in the benefits system apparently)
I'm not worried about supplying the information they want as such, as it's all documented correctly, receipts for EVERYTHING
, contracts with specified hours, attendance register, daily diaries etc all prove I'm claiming the correct working hours, but from a safeguarding aspect I'm not comfortable with sending them originals in respect of their request to send 'diary of bookings/appointments made/other documentation to show the number of hours worked' - as Sarah rightly says, I'd be up poop creek if they lost them, and they said in their letter they don't accept photocopies...
Thanks for your concern Sarah, much appreciated
I called them, and spoke to a lovely guy, explained that I was a childminder and as such had safeguarding issues and ofsted compliances to consider with the information I could supply to them etc etc, and he very kindly said to write a letter explaining this, detailing as much as possible in regard to working hours. I have said they are welcome to visit me, or allow me to photocopy contracts with personal details removed, and he again said to mention that and if that's acceptable they will be in touch about it.
Thankfully, on my spreadsheet, I keep a tab on cumalitve contracted hours v actual hours worked individually, and then a running total for that week.
I did originally consider going through my attendance registers listing the actual attendance of each mindee, (when I made the original post) however as I've spoken to them since, will just print out my spreadsheets for them instead as that's already done on a weekly basis anyway.
I'm determined not to do any damn paperwork over christmas
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