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**sweets** · 22-06-2010, 12:14 PM

think i might put mine in a tin box and bury it in the garden, i will draw a map and put it in a safe box at the bank.

**Blaze** · 22-06-2010, 12:39 PM

Sweets - seems to be latest OFSTED nitpicking!

TheBTeam · 22-06-2010, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by sweets

think i might put mine in a tin box and bury it in the garden, i will draw a map and put it in a safe box at the bank.

Ah but then burglars will have to go to the bank first to find it, can you put the map in your memory and then they would have to torture you first to get you to tell about the map, this may be more to OFSTEDs liking!

**rickysmiths** · 22-06-2010, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Hebs

NCMA is not lockable i dont think

mine is made from metal, and has an intergrated lock

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...7C14419006.htm

The NCMA ones are lockable and come supplied with a padlock.

**Blaze** · 22-06-2010, 12:45 PM

Sweets - seems to be latest OFSTED nitpicking!

**sweets** · 22-06-2010, 12:47 PM

or maybe ofsted would prefer it if all info was on tiny microchips that could be injected into us like they do with cats and dogs!

**rickysmiths** · 22-06-2010, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by Blaze

My jewerlery is under the sink LOL

I used to put mine in the freezer when I went away

How doe you think the Contracts and Learning Journeies would stand up to that?

**venus89** · 22-06-2010, 12:49 PM

Well balls to that! (

sorry). If I get failed or marked down by mrs O - or her little helper - for having a metal lockable box file with could be picked up and removed from the house then I'm changing jobs. I agree with the BTeam - who on earth would actually really want to nick all that stuff anyway? Or even look? What value has it to anyone? Even I don't care where the kids live, why should a stranger, or my husband? Gah

TheBTeam · 22-06-2010, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by venus89

Well balls to that! (

sorry). What value has it to anyone? Even I don't care where the kids live, why should a stranger, or my husband? Gah

You have really made me chuckle!!!!!!

**venus89** · 22-06-2010, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by TheBTeam

You have really made me chuckle!!!!!!

well it's so stupid. And I was just feeling all positive as now I'm nearly accredited I've been invited to a briefing session in a pub with a 'light supper' laid on. But what restrictions will Ofsted put on that, I ask you?! Will I have to wear gloves to eat the food, and a mask so nobody recognises me?

TheBTeam · 22-06-2010, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by venus89

well it's so stupid. And I was just feeling all positive as now I'm nearly accredited I've been invited to a briefing session in a pub with a 'light supper' laid on. But what restrictions will Ofsted put on that, I ask you?! Will I have to wear gloves to eat the food, and a mask so nobody recognises me?

Youll be okay as long as you dont get drunk and start giving out secret details of the map you will have stored in your brain, or the code for the combination lock to the paperwork you have buried in the secret bunker.

Whatever you do do not teach the mindees their address you may save a burglar having to come in and find out!

**venus89** · 22-06-2010, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by TheBTeam

Youll be okay as long as you dont get drunk and start giving out secret details of the map you will have stored in your brain, or the code for the combination lock to the paperwork you have buried in the secret bunker.

Whatever you do do not teach the mindees their address you may save a burglar having to come in and find out!

I'm not storing the details of the map in me brain - the burglar might try and steal that! No, maybe tell my husband. He's dispensible.....

TheBTeam · 22-06-2010, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by venus89

I'm not storing the details of the map in me brain - the burglar might try and steal that! No, maybe tell my husband. He's dispensible.....

Aha I have been trying to think of a way to dispense with my dh for years (married 24 yesterday, never thought i would see that day, well hoped!), perhaps I should get it stored in his brain then advertise for a burglar who is interested in the details of childminding children and tell them where to get them!

**ranger-knight** · 22-06-2010, 01:08 PM

Well Mrs O came yesterday adn never mentioned ANYTHING aobut my file and I just use the NCMA one and keep it in a drawer of my filing cabinet (which doesn't lock)
who knows.. too be honest I think it all depends on who you get round on the day!

**venus89** · 22-06-2010, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by TheBTeam

Aha I have been trying to think of a way to dispense with my dh for years (married 24 yesterday, never thought i would see that day, well hoped!), perhaps I should get it stored in his brain then advertise for a burglar who is interested in the details of childminding children and tell them where to get them!

I think we have a cunning plan there..... Plus husbands, I am sure, are harder to steal than filing cabinets. Unless you have the sense to wave a beer and a pizza under their noses.......
Congrats for yesterday by the way x

**Hebs** · 22-06-2010, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Blaze

Hebs the one you have is not suitable anymore as it's removable - ie you can pick it up remove from the premises & force open....that is now the issue

it's not removable and is safe as it is kept in a locked cupboard

**Excitable** · 01-07-2010, 08:13 PM

Well just to be sure I'm going to keep my records in an underground shark-infested lake underneath my patio, accessed by a series of tunnels each containing a set of creatures more upsetting and disturbing than the last ones. The box containing the files will only be opened if the correct answer to the question what are Ofsted is given. You can probably imagine the answer.

Well, really.

**WibbleWobble** · 01-07-2010, 08:19 PM

i think we should tattoo all info onto our bodies...like in memento.

No one would get to see mine...except oh

and thats only in the dark

change of contracted hours could prove embarrassing

mandy x

**JulieA** · 01-07-2010, 09:37 PM

All I can say is good luck to them if they find it to have a nosey, cos I don't remember where it is half the time!!!! Can take me weeks to lay my hands on it coming up to a review.

**Chimps Childminding** · 01-07-2010, 09:56 PM

Mine is in my kitchen wall cupboard with the rest of the c*** associated with childminding

Slowly but surely it is taking over the house!!!! and I refuse to have a lockable filing cabinet (not that I could find a space for it amongst the toys, equipment, paperwork etc etc) to put bits of paper in that are of no interest to anyone anyway