Will they or won't they?

[Willowdancer]

I had the phone call I hadn't much been looking forward to this morning. "Oh hello Ali P, Ofsted here - we see you've been registered for all of 5 minutes now so we want to come out and inspect you."

I have a feeling it will probably be deferred though after I explained my situation and they decided that it was unlikely they'd come out when I've only got one on my books and my job is done by 9am!

[miffy]

So is that good news then? Better they delay for a while rather than come now and you get a lower rating.......

Miffy xx

[sarah707]

They won't hold on forever though! Your number will keep coming up on their system now...

Hope you get someone soon!

[huggableshelly]

they have forgotten about me woohooooooooo

[devoncm]

They do leave it a while but they will come even if you no children-they did me and all i could get was satisfactory- they didnt seem to care that 3 wks after they came id have an after school starting

[Willowdancer]

Well its good news for the time being - they could walk in and see that I've done all the things they asked me to at my pre-reg inspection but I've got no learning journeys or anything to show them so it would be a bit of a waste of time I think.

Fingers crossed I get some more mindees soon - seems to be a very slow market around here though

[Carol]

they have forgotten about me woohooooooooo

Would you like us to remind them

Carol xx

Only kidding

[Willowdancer]

No ta

Well, over a fortnight later and they still haven't phoned to say if they're deferring or not. I am not assuming that they are so I'm still working my socks off getting everything in place.

I have 2 mindees starting in the Easter holidays but even then I'll have no EYFS stuff to show any inspector that turns up as they're 7 and 10.

And on top of that HMRC want to come round and inspect our payroll stuff for our other business so its inspections galore at Chez P

[FizzysFriends]

No ta

Well, over a fortnight later and they still haven't phoned to say if they're deferring or not. I am not assuming that they are so I'm still working my socks off getting everything in place.

I have 2 mindees starting in the Easter holidays but even then I'll have no EYFS stuff to show any inspector that turns up as they're 7 and 10.

And on top of that HMRC want to come round and inspect our payroll stuff for our other business so its inspections galore at Chez P

OMG why are they inspecting your pay roll? I dread an inspection at work, I wont sign the VAT return incase its wrong as they make the person that signed it explain it and I'd probably cry!!

[Willowdancer]

I don't know - something about it not being an actual audit but something they do for all companies after a certain number of years trading to make sure everything is going right and they don't get 10 years down the line and hit with a giant bill.

We had a proper VAT audit last year and it was horrendous so I'm still dreading their arrival in a couple of weeks

[Chatterbox Childcare]

They rang me in January and said they would be here by end of March - nothing yet but she did ring.

[singlewiththree]

I've been registrered since Dec and had 1 variation refused and have another waiting a reply and still not had my inspection.