Childminders & cleaning during Covid

[buckeejit]

Any childminders here who can tell me are they actually cleaning toys after each child has played with them?

I'm doing my best with cleaning the area more & keeping people's hands washed & sanitised etc along with temp checking. I've removed a lot of toys but honestly don't think I can do as much as we're supposed to do with cleaning of toys. I also can't see how it's likely to make that much difference when 2 children are in direct contact anyway. Feeling the uphill lockdown struggle in a big way today.

I have the same 3 early years children in each day so I don't clean on a daily basis. I do clean if I see a child cough or sneeze onto it.

I have different children on 2 days a week so I tend to clean and /or rotate resources on that day.

Meant to write I have the same 3 in on 3 days a week.

No, everything that can go in the dishwasher (playmobil, lego etc) once a week though.

Thank you. I have 3 families, one full time & the other 2 on separate days.

The dishwasher is a great idea, never thought of that & we use a lot of the playmobil 123. Having them all full time is just an extra stress atm. Will try to do another cull of toys & rotation for cleaning when families swap days.

I would have seperate boxes of toys for different groups then rotate them to add variation on a weekly basis.

Thanks @jannier that's a good idea too. Every day I am removing toys & most of them won't go back in!

There is something in guidence on cleaning and how long items need to be left untouched before virus dies I think most are under 72 hours