Sorry to hear that.
Sadly, Ofsted seem to follow 'hard and fast rules'. This sort of thing will inevitably backfire. If there's to be an absolute ban on dummies (the childhood equivalent of smoking if you want pariah status
) they're saying we can't make an individual decision on the needs of an individual child, balance the dummy use against the bigger picture and make an informed decision on how/when to stop the dummy use in the long run: so much for 'The Unique Child'.
As for expecting every CM to speak the home language of every child in their care, the inevitable result will be CMs quietly turning away enquiries from families who don't use English as a first language. Sorry, but they can't realistically expect us to be multilingual on less than the minimum wage, or take time out to learn fluency in goD knows how many tongues. It's the Law of Unintended Consequences coming into play, and Ofsted will have brought it about.
Hope you feel better soon.
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