Fire evacuation policy

[alison222]

Someone on a course yesterday told me that I should actually be displaying my fire policy and how to complain policy on the wall.
Do you know if this is right?
I know I need to have them but is it true they need to be displayed?

I don't know the answer but if it's true, I need to do it too! My lounge door is already covered in childminding bits and dh would be even more annoyed if I had to add to it (as it's the hall side it's on so everyone can see when they walk in our house, other side of door is covered in their artwork so that's a no go!)

It seems they dont know that we live in our houses, do they!! It wasnt covered in ours but i do need to do a practice drill.

Perhaps you should be displaying your emergency evacuation/fire policy so that all the small pre-schoolers you mind can read it and know what to do!!

PMSL

Prisoner
I was just hoping someone here has recently had an Ofted inspection and might know the answer.
i was also told that i should also be practicing fire drills with the babes and in different situations to see if my policy works and making a note of it.
The person that told me is part of an NCMA network and I was wondering if this may come from their good practice rather than OFSTED

I am part of a childminding network, and am supposed to have a house evacuation procedure in place, and a written policy etc (which I have).

At the time of being told this, I had three non-walking small children. I had to plan how I would escape from my instantaneously-and-suddenly-combusted-burning-to-the-ground sitting room - and lobbing them out of a (downstairs) open window wasn't considered acceptable. I have to pick them all up in one go, and make my way to a suitable exit, preferably a door. And I am supposed to practice this.

I really do understand why we need to have some plans, but my chiropractor will kill me if I go in next week and say that the reason I have dislocated my pelvis again is that I was practising my house evacuation procedure by lugging three non-walking children around. But my network co-ordinator says that just having it in writing isn't enough, I need to be sure that I can do it! I wouldn't mind seriously damaging my spine again if I was saving lives for real, but I'm really not happy about doing it so that I can tick a box on my policy!!

Oops, sorry there alison, just a bit of a rant again ... and of no help to you whatsoever.

I got a mark down on my ofsted report because i hadnt practiced it but i didnt know i had to so i hadnt.

I had an inspection in March - I had my fire drill record in a folder (no specific policy for fire evacuation; fire drills are mentioned in my emergency procedures). I did have a fire evacuation poster on the wall but i didn't see her look at it and she barely glanced at the drill record. Mind you, the size of the pile of folders I presented her with took her by surprise; i think she'd have had to stay a week to read it all properly!

AFIK its only your registration certificate that HAS to be displayed.

I had my inspection in December and nothing was displayed, just in my folder and I told her I was going to start drills in the new year, that was it - she was happy with that (but not with me using the word 'no' or 'don't' etc! )

You MUST also have your public liability insurance certificate on display but that and the reg cert are the only things I thought we had to have on display?

Looney that is what I thought It really does seem to depend on the inspector that coems out doesn't it.
I remember at my last inspection being asked about fire drills. I hadn't actually practiced at the time having 2 under 4's in the house. She suggested maybe I should verbally but didn't put it in the report. I am just wondering what to do to get ready in case I get a call- although it shouln't be for a while yet

Difficult when they all say different things isn't it!