Support for childcare providers
Further information for all childcare providers
Please click on the links below to access a range of useful documents, templates and guidance:
- Devon Early Years guidance documents and templates
- Useful Ofsted documents and links
- Advice and Guidance from other organisations
- Every Child Matters Website
- Summary of the Children Act 2004
- Ten Year Strategy for Childcare
Access a copy of the Early Years Foundation Stage document - an essential guide for anyone caring for children up to the 31st August following their fifth birthday.
For information on Safer Recruitment visit our Recruitment pages.
Toolkit Contents
Essential Toolkit for Daycare providers
- Registering with Ofsted Section
(202KB - pdf help) - Guidance to writing policies and procedures (239KB - pdf help)
- Health and Safety (65KB - pdf help)
- Operation Plan (61KB - pdf help)
- Staffing Matters (192KB - pdf help)
- Financial Management (87KB - pdf help)
- Management Structures (120KB - pdf help)
- Marketing (116KB - pdf help)
Essential Toolkit for Childminders:
- Information on Ofsted registration and variations to conditions (155KB - pdf help)
- Guidance for writing policies and procedures (121KB - pdf help)
- Health and Safety (73KB - pdf help)
- Management Finance and Marketing (110KB - pdf help)
- Childminding Support (52KB - pdf help)
- Professional Development (35KB - pdf help)
- Childminding in Devon (replaced section named 'Networks')
Some of these documents within these pages 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.
