my healthy declaration form...advice please!

[mooer]

I'm registering as a childminder but my health declaration booklet is being sent off for 'further advice' from Health Management - Ofsteds medical screening suppliers. On the form I highlighted a period of depression and anxiety that lasted 1 year and was managed with anti depressants and counselling. I guess thats the problem. All better for 2 years and doing really well, but I have no proof of that... are they going to deny my registration?

**health declaration form!

See this post from Oct 2010 which is similar

Yes it happened to me as the link shows! But I can happily say it really wasnt a big deal in the end. The doctor I had to see simply checked I was 'now stable', that the depression hadn't been severe (ie no hospitalisation etc) and that I had the insight to know if it returned ie I would do something about it. He took my word for it all, that and my doctors notes I guess. It sounds like you will be absolutely fine from what you say. Good luck, tho don't think you'll need it! x

Thank you thats really reassuring, have been ina totaly panic! Calm down now... phew!

Hi, can you tell me how long this took to sort out? Exactly the same thing has happened to me as I declared similar things on my medical form. I also thought that I became registered when the Ofsted Inspector visited, and that the formal certificate etc would arrive in due course. Now I have found out that I'm actually not registered yet. I'm supposed to have my first children starting within a few days!

Can't answer your query about the medical form but I can about the certificate.

You are NOT a registered childminder until your certificate is in your hand. So you cannot care for children at your home for more than 2 hours per day until that certificate arrives, else you are likely to breach childcare legislation. A temporary work around may be to not charge them at all for the childcare, or to provide the care at the child's own home.