long term childminders help please

[mandy10]

I am currently registered for 5 children with no more than 2 under 5.
I have 1 full time child and 1 child on a friday. I also have 1 child starting mid may on a monday-thursday (all under 5) but mum needs monday-friday can anyone advise on if ofsted will possibly let me have 3 under 5 just on a friday and will it go against me because I have only been registered for a couple of months.

Any help or advise will be greatly appreciated in advance thank-you.

Do you know why you are registered for 5 under 8's, not 6. Ie. How old are your own children?

How old are the under 5's. If aged 4, are they in full time school?

You can request to care for more than 3 under 5's. It needs to be siblings or continuity of care - and it must be time limited. See HMI 2089 - Childminding Guidance (2004) for details.

If you have a child B only on Fridays, then I'd say that one consideration is to give them notice, so that you can have child A, and Child C full-time.

I am wondering why you haven't been registered for 3 under 5's. Is space an issue?

The full time one is nine months, the friday child is just over one and the new child is 2. I don't know why I am only registerd for 5 maybe because my house is not overly big I only have a living room and a kitchen.

I have three children 4,8 and 13.

The 4 year old is in full time education though

You have an under 5 yourself... your 4 year old. Your other two children are not in ratio, thus why your certificate says 5 under 8's of which 2 may be under 5, or which 1 may be under 1. (Well, it will say something like that.)

Is your 4 year old in school, Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm?
If not, then you will be wanting to apply for 4 under 5's... which is possible, but may be tricky.

So your 4 year old is actually aged 5 for ratio purposes. So can't see an issue taking on a 3rd under 5.
Suggest you write to Ofsted to notify them that your 4 year old is in full time education, so that they have that info on file.

will do thanks nanny nick for all your help .

Should point out that I am not a childminder. So have bumped the Staff Room, to encourage actual childminders to take a look.

Nick's right

KM - Would Ofsted issue a new certificate for this? My gut feeling is that they won't, until the child has their 5th birthday (note: when that happens also write to Ofsted, to encourage them to issues a revised certificate).

She needs to write for a variation & they will send a new cert with the variation on

(I think)

my friend reg in august and got her cert through with 2 children under 5
her dd turned 4 at end of august and started school in sept
my friend wrote to ofsted to say her dd was in school and they sent a new cert saying 3 under 5

Thanks guys I will write to ofsted and inform them. Once again thanks for all your replies.

Just to let you know that I had only been registered for 11 weeks when I asked for 4 children under 5 and they allowed it so i'm sure it's not down to how long you'd been registered
Good luck

I have my own dd who is under 2 so my first certificate said no more than 2 under 5. I've been minding one under 5 (Mon to Fri) for the last couple of months and have just been sent a new certificate to allow me to mind 2 more under 5s (siblings). Ofsted were very helpful so it's definitely worth asking