Visitors

**linda2girls** · 14-05-2010, 12:45 PM

How do you explain to Ofsted that you will not leave children alone with visitors who are not CRB checked.

I'm just thinking that if my mum comes to visit and I need to answer the door or go to the loo, what am I going to do with mindees (when I get some

).

Thanks,
Linda.

**miffy** · 14-05-2010, 12:48 PM

It's written into my visitor's policy that I won't leave them alone with mindees.

If there are visitors present and I need to go to the door then I'd take the mindees with me - actually, they'd be at the door before me because they love to see who's there!

Miffy xx

TheBTeam · 14-05-2010, 12:57 PM

Unless the visitors are registered as assistants or childminders to work alongside you then you can not leave a child with them even if they are crb checked.

So even if your visitor is crb checked you can not let them alone with minded children.

Emergencies are different.

**marzi** · 14-05-2010, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by TheBTeam

Unless the visitors are registered as assistants or childminders to work alongside you then you can not leave a child with them even if they are crb checked.

So even if your visitor is crb checked you can not let them alone with minded children.

Emergencies are different.

I had my pre reg inspection on monday and asked if my mum needs a crb as she sometimes stays over, the inspector said she doesnt need one but cant be left alone with the children unless she has had a crb check done. I wish they'd tell us all the same thing.

**linda2girls** · 14-05-2010, 07:52 PM

So, what happens when you need to go to the toilet?

Linda.

aly · 14-05-2010, 08:02 PM

you line the kids up in the toilet with you

aly · 14-05-2010, 08:03 PM

are you sure you are entitled to a potty break?

**linda2girls** · 14-05-2010, 09:23 PM

I don't think you're taking this question very seriously

**miffy** · 14-05-2010, 09:25 PM

You weren't expecting to go to the toilet on your own were you?

Miffy xx

**linda2girls** · 15-05-2010, 10:19 AM

Well no, but it doesn't feel right taking other people's children into the toilet with me

Linda

**sonia ann** · 15-05-2010, 11:00 AM

Common sense says to me that answering the front door or going for a quick wee is not really leaving the child alone in my opinion.....I will continue to say to my OH ,son, daughter, next door neighbour who pops in for coffee...."keep an eye on xxx for me while I go to the loo".....I am still on the premises ( less than 5yds away and within hearing if not sight.)

Obviously I am not going to ask the man who reads the meter or the window cleaner!!

If I am alone babies /toddlers are put in travel cots and older children I tell them where I am going but leave them safely in the lounge behind a stairgate

Surely this rule is to prevent us leaving the premises and leaving them with unregistered people for a period of time except in an emergency

**CHUNKY MONKEY** · 16-05-2010, 02:10 PM

I agree with Sonnia ann

**wendywu** · 16-05-2010, 02:35 PM

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QUOTE=CHUNKY MONKEY;708442]I agree with Sonnia ann

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So do i, this is all far to out of hand

**linda2girls** · 16-05-2010, 08:39 PM

Thank you everyone.

Linda.

**Merry-Minder** · 16-05-2010, 08:45 PM

I agree as well, but sometimes I have had two children that dont mix and all hell breaks loose the second I walk out the room, so I take one of them to the loo with me and I tell Ofsted that I give that child a toys to occupy them whilst im........busy -

**sweets** · 16-05-2010, 09:05 PM

i ahev a very good friend come to visit me sometimes, known her for years and she brings her LO to play with my mindees who all know her. if i need the loo when she is here then i go on my own! i wouldnt leave mindees with her for more than 5 mins but i think it would be ridiculous to take them all with me!