Toy cleaning

[LesbianMummy1]

Hi can I ask how often you clean your toys and equipment and how important you see this. A s it seems me and another childminder are very different in our opinions and am hoping to see whether I am too OTT or she is too lax Thank you

You can never clean them too often. I try and stick to a cleaning rota, but sometimes things jump the queue for emergency cleans. It also depends how many children, ages, cleanliness of the rest of the playroom etc.

I am a nanny to a 4 year old so slightly different but we give the toys a clean about once a month or so.

When I was a room leader at nursery it was once a week.

yes, a rota but emergency cleans as and when

all the plastic stuff goes in the top shelf of my dishwasher, I put cuddlies/soft toys in the machine on handwash, I scrub the wooden train track/hard plastic dolls with hot soapy water, for example

have cleaning check list for toilets so done at 7am and 7 pm and if needed in between.

blankets, soft toys, cot sheets once a week on sunday but also as and when.

plastic toys in dishwasher weekly, hard stuff anti backed twice a week.

Thank you. So I am about average she thinks every 6 months is sufficient I think minimum of week for baby toys as everything goes in their mouths and everything else is done on a 4 week rota so nothing is missed could not do it weekly as over 100 boxes of toys and equipment. Also rooms are cleaned daily etc she cleans rooms weekly or less often e.g. hoovers [hconfused] thorough cleaning about every six months she also has four pets [hhmm]

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what a SLATTERN she is

exactly my thought sand she was rated OUTSTANDING [hshock]

yeuk yeuk , dirty mare, bloody ell typical outstanding... so paperwork is spot on but kids always got diarrhoea.....

omfg at being OS

she must have scrubbed MASSIVELY beforehand

Not typical outstanding at all!

This is one childminder who doesn't clean her toys as often as you think she should. That's no excuse to start nasty little digs about outstanding childminders.

Believe it or not, some of us on here have outstanding grades. How do you think we feel when we read this sort of thing from people we'd considered as online friends and colleagues?

Tanith I am not digging I was genuinely curious as she feels I am OTT. I have never slated anybody who is outstanding as I know it is hard to get it is just awful that people can pull the wool over Ofsted's eyes like that.

It worries me that parents often have to trust Ofsted reports to choose childminders and this is the sort of thing that gives us all a bad name.

Im not a childminder any more but do have six children but can't ever recall doing specific cleans of toys. I'd regularly wipe baby walkers, put second hand bricks etc through the wash when bought etc.

I have never wiped a toy car, scrubbed a dolls house, cleaned a wooden fire station or anything of that nature. And to my knowledge no child has ever died or became I'll because of it.

Having ridiculous toy cleaning check lists and rotas was one of the reasons I gave up child minding. None of my parents cared. They wanted their child happy, loved, and safe while they were at work. None of them gave a toss about the increasing levels of paperwork required and I just didn't have a head for doing it, unfortunately.