Here are some links to useful documents for childminders and childcare providers.

Devon Early Years publications

• Accident form template (54KB - pdf help)
• Incident form template

• Short term administration of medicine (11KB - pdf help)
• Long term administration of medicine (11KB - pdf help)

• Guidance for using the register templates (26KB - pdf help)
• Register for Children
• Register for Staff

• Guidance on completing an action plan to accompany a variation request to Ofsted (31KB - pdf help)
• Guidance on Risk Assessment (21KB - pdf help)
  

• Staffing Matters - A guide to recruitment and retention or view word document here
• Supervision Form

• Creating your operational plan
  
• Health and Safety at a Childcare Provision
• Policies, Procedures and Recruitment Guidance for Day Care Settings
  
• Early Education Funding for 3 and 4 year olds (79KB - pdf help)  - information for Parents
• Guidelines, Conditions and Requirements for EYEF in Devon (101KB - pdf help)

• Registering as a childminder? (1.29MB - pdf help)
  
• Good Practice Guide for Childcare Providers exempt from Ofsted registration
• Marketing Guide for Childcare Providers
• Childcare funding for new and existing childcare places (332KB - pdf help)

Department for Education and Skills

• Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children's Workforce

Department of Health

• What To Do if You're Worried A Child is Being Abused - Information on Safeguarding Children
• Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings

Ofsted publications

• Early Years : Safe and Sound
• Early Years : Firm Foundations
• Information for parents and carers using childcare services

Voluntary Childcare Register

• Guide to registration on the voluntary part of the Childcare Register

Preparing for an Ofsted inspection

• Self-evaluation form - childcare and nursery education
• Are you ready for your inspection?
• Inspections of day care and funded nursery education in maintained schools and children's cenres or on their sites

• Concerns and complaints about childminders and day-care providers
• Building Better Childcare - Objections and Appeals
• Complaints about Ofsted Early Years
• Building Better Childcare - Information for childminders from European Union member states
• Building Better Childcare - Information for providers and parents on suspending the provision of childcare

• DC2 - Declaration and Consent Form
• DC3 - Notification to Ofsted of involvement in the registration of a day care provider
• CM2 - Declaration and Consent Form
• Health Declaration Booklet
• Disqualification - How to apply to Ofsted for consent to waive disqualification

Guidances to the National Standards

• Full Day Care - Guidance to the National Standards
• Sessional Daycare - Guidance to the National Standards
• Creches - Guidance on the National Standards
• Out of School Care - Guidance on the National Standards
• Childminding - Guidance on the National Standards

Revisions

• Day care and childminding: Guidance to the National Standards - Revisions to certain criteria October 2005
• Day Care : Guidance to the National Standards - Revisions to certain criteria September 2003
• Childminding : Guidance to the National Standards - Revisions to certain criteria, version 2 February 2004

Setting up in Childcare

• Guide to registration for day care providers
• Guide to registration for Childminders

SureStart publications

National Standands:

• Addendum - National standards for under 8s day care and childminding October 2005
• Childminding - The DfES National Standards for Under Eights Day Care And Childminding
• Full Day Care - The DfES National Standards For Under 8s Day Care And Childminding
• Sessional Care - The DfES National Standards For Under 8s Day Care And Childminding
• Creches - The DfES National Standards For Under 8s Day Care And Childminding
• Out of School Care - The DfES National Standards For Under Eights Daycare And Childminding

• Good practice guide for early years, childcare and playwork providers - Recruitment and Retention
• Good practice guide for early years, childcare and playwork providers - Recruitment and Retention of Disabled People
• Marketing and PR Tips

• Thinking about Childminding - your questions answered

Fire Safety

• A short guide to making your premises safe from fire

Safety Information publications

• Getting to grips with manual handling - (661KB - pdf help)
• Five steps to Risk Assessment - (134 KB pdf help)
• Babysitting Guidance from Rospa - When Children Look After Children

Child Car Safey

• Child Car Seat - The Law from 18 September 2006
• Child Restraints - new law (September 06)

Road Safety Information

• Getting across road safely
• Teaching your child road safety
• Road Safety for Young People

Devon Social Services

• Child Protection
• Child Protection - what can I do? ref: 21
• Child Protection Investigations - a guide for parents ref: 27
• Multi-agency Child Protection Procedures

Every Child Matters

• Every Child Matters Website
• Summary of the Children Act 2004
• Ten Year Strategy for Childcare

Health Protection Agency

• Spotty Book (202KB - pdf help) - Notes on infectious diseases in schools
• Guidance on Infection Control in Schools and other Child Care Settings (270KB - pdf help)

Some of these documents are Adobe PDF documents.  You may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader here.  You may also wish to download these documents to your computer as these files can be quite large and can take sometime to download on a dial-up connection. To save to your computer right click on the file name and save target as.  Some are Microsoft Word Documents and if you do not have this programme you can download a viewer here.

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