Child led risk assessments - help!

[Fleurry]

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

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.

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

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

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