Useful information for all childcare providers

NEW!!!!! Model Safeguarding Policy (420KB - pdf help) Single Central Record for Employees employee_check_form.xls Safeguarding  policy checklist (19KB - pdf help) Devon Childminding Network (22KB - pdf help)-Information for parents

Devon Early Years publications

• Guidance for writing policies and procedures (219KB - pdf help)
• Guidance on minimum temperatures to be maintained within settings temperature_advice.doc
• Accident Log Template (33KB - pdf help)
• Incident Log Template (33KB - pdf help)
• Short Term Administration of Medicine (14KB - pdf help)
• Long term Administration of Medicine (15KB - pdf help)
• Managing ,Medicines Care Plan Template
• Guidance for using the Register Template (31KB - pdf help)
• Register for Children (31KB - pdf help)
• Register for Staff (31KB - pdf help)
• Variation Form for Ofsted with accompanying guidance
• Action Plan to help you to prepare a Variation Request (10KB - pdf help) to Ofsted
• Guidance on Risk Assessment (21KB - pdf help)
• Risk Assessment Template
• Complaints Log (12KB - pdf help)
• Good Practice Guide for Providers  on the Ofsted Childcare Register (Compulsory and Voluntary) and for those exempt from Ofsted registration. (1.81MB - pdf help)
• Guidance on creating an operational plan (84KB - pdf help)
• Management handbook for childcare settings (213KB - pdf help)
• Health and Safety at a Childcare Provision
• Early Years Entitlement for 3 and 4 year olds (136KB - pdf help)
• Guidelines, Conditions and Requirements for EYE in Devon (101KB - pdf help)
• Parent / Provider contract for Early Years Entitlement
• Childcare funding for new and existing childcare places (332KB - pdf help)
• Staffing Matters - A guide to recruitment and retention (305KB - pdf help)
• Staffing Matters (Word Version)
• Recruitment Services Booklet
• Setting up in Childcare
• Creche Monitoring Guidance (2.06MB - pdf help)
• Guide to registration for child care on non domestic premises
• Swine Flu information
• Guidelines for the retention of records
• model_safeguarding_policy.doc

Additional Information for Childminders

• Guide to registration for child care on domestic premises
• Thinking about becoming a childminder?
• Training plan for childminders, to aid professional development
• Devon Childminding Network (146KB - pdf help)
• Dates for the submission of portfolios to the Network Appraisal Panel (9KB - pdf help)

To order a copy of the Early Years Foundation Stage document which is an essential guide for anyone caring for children up to the 31st August following their fifth birthday please contact DCSF publications on Tel: 0845 60 222 60 or email: dscf@prolog.uk.com.    

Department for Children Schools and Families

• 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
• Concerns and complaints about childminders and day-care providers
• Building Better Childcare - Objections and Appeals
• 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
• Complaints about Ofsted Early Years
• EY2-Declaration and Consent form
• EY3-Notification to Ofsted
• Health Declaration Booklet
• Disqualification - How to apply to Ofsted for consent to waive disqualification

Childcare Register

• Confused about which registers you should be on? Try this helpful tool
• 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 centres or on their sites

SureStart publications

• 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

Fire Safety

• A short guide to making your premises safe from fire
• Fire Safety Assessment (51KB - pdf help)

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 Safety

• 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 County Council Children and Families

• 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 (335KB - 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.