time on register

**linzi66** · 27-09-2010, 05:43 PM

Hi all I'm just wondering what other childminders put on their register. Do you round the mindee's arrival time to the nearest 5 minute or do you put for example 12:37pm?
thanks

**Pauline** · 27-09-2010, 05:58 PM

I always put the exact time, Ofsted like to see that, not their contracted times or rounding up

It isn't easy, you have to be clock watching all the time

**Chimps Childminding** · 27-09-2010, 10:03 PM

same here!!!!!!

**karensmart4** · 27-09-2010, 10:11 PM

Def the exact time, its not regulations but Ofsted always look for it!

**Millenium** · 28-09-2010, 07:38 AM

Always the precise time here

**Pauline** · 28-09-2010, 07:42 AM

and also .... don't forget to log the times they come and go throughout the day, e.g. if they go to nursery; log the time they leave your care and the time they come back into your care. This is important if ever there was a claim for injury or anything, it helps show the times they were, or were not, in your care.

**Mouse** · 28-09-2010, 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by Pauline

and also .... don't forget to log the times they come and go throughout the day, e.g. if they go to nursery; log the time they leave your care and the time they come back into your care. This is important if ever there was a claim for injury or anything, it helps show the times they were, or were not, in your care.

Do you know what, I didn't ever used to do that & it was never picked up by Ofsted at inspections

I just used to put the time the child arrived & the time they left. One day it suddenly occurred to me that I should be logging them out & in again when I took them to nursery. I asked on here if that's what people did & changed the way I did it.

I also round the times to the nearest 5 minutes & that's never been questioned.

**Helen79** · 28-09-2010, 10:37 AM

I round to the nearest 5 minutes aswell. Not sure if that's what I should be doing though.

**mrs.h** · 28-09-2010, 08:02 PM

hello,

i round to the nearest 5 minutes (but will probably changed that now after reading this thread). i use the ncma attendance register as i couldn't get everything on a a4 sheet

and once a "book" is full i store it in my loft.

mrs.h

**Chell** · 28-09-2010, 08:08 PM

If the children arrive at my home then I write an exact time. As I collect two from school and drop one off home then these times aren't exact. I have an *by the time and a note explaining that it isn't exact for whatever reason. I was inspected last week and there was no comment made about this.

**Mrs Book** · 29-09-2010, 07:23 PM

Thanks forr this post, I was just about to most and ask same question.

I have MM attendance sheets and have been recording one mindee who is before & after school in 2 seperate columns and writing before & after at the bottom.