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Child led risk assessments - help!

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Fleurry Thu 09-Feb-12 23:42:24

looking for some advice about starting these! Any Childminder out there done some of these??? Trying to do something slightly different!!! By this I mean children doing the risk assessments? Thanks in advance

Fleur

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HSMM Fri 10-Feb-12 04:50:31

I get my older mindees to help with risk assessments . They love doing it and I put their name alongside mine in the place where I say who carried out the assessment. They come up with things I haven't thought of and some amusing things like - having chocolate in the fridge is a risk, because they might want to eat it. The little ones can only really help by my observations of them doing risky things.

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thebody Fri 10-Feb-12 11:12:23

Lovely idea as the children are being asked to think about safety and risk as well.

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Alliwantisaroomsomewhere Fri 10-Feb-12 16:08:14

How do you introduce the idea, OP? "Risk assessment" is a bit dry!! smile

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MrAnchovy Fri 10-Feb-12 22:38:54

There are some templates on the childminder.co.uk site I think.

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