This childminder shouldn’t be allowed to be working anymore?

[Firsttimemom3]

I have sent my child to a childminder (removed since) - she had been recommended to me. I had seen an Ofsted report which was good but hadn’t seen the inadequate one or the complaint made against her which resulted in her being suspended for 6 weeks.

Last month, a toddler managed to escape from her house and walked to local park by himself was then brought back by 2 police officers.

Ofsted just made a compliance call and that’s it - she still can work as a childminder. How can Ofsted allow that ?

Seems to happen fairly frequently at nurseries and they're not immediately shut down?

She has clearly shown Ofsted that she has made changes to ensure it can't happen again.

She has clearly satisfied Oftsed requirements to stay open.

But also- accidents happen. Multiple times a month I see frantic posts on our local Facebook page about kids who have managed to sneak out undetected asking for help looking for them, those parents don’t immediately have all of their children removed from their care because we all know that even when the best care is taken, awful accidents can still happen.

Same as nurseries and school nurseries they just need to buy a risk assessment in place.

Thing is, Ofsted and the Police will know far more about this than you and have investigated and reinstated her registration.

Thank goodness those with the powers and investigative knowledge are allowed to decide the fate of someone's career and not 'some parent who once sent her child there'.

Leave her be, don't become a vigilante.

It happens to parents too. Give her a break.

It’s not good enough. It’s a serious safeguarding issue and Ofsted are useless. When I had a serious safeguarding concern about my ds nursery they took the managers side after she made a malicious referral to SS with made up incidents she had apparently witnessed and accused me of other serious things. It was only a few months later when a member of staff made a complaint after the manager laughed and admitted what she had done to me that it got taken seriously by the LA officer. My point is that yes parents make mistakes and these kind of things happen BUT childcare professionals need to be more vigilant and they don’t have ‘but it happens ‘ as an excuse .

I wouldn't be sending my child there that's for sure. I had a childminder that was amazing, everything was child safe, she had no more than 3 kids at a time, house was spotless, she took a great deal of pride over it, and credentials were all good. I also happened to see her out and about with the kids in the community. I personally don't think this happens to anyone. I mean you have to be careful with your own kids but if you're a childminder you should make darn sure none of them are 'escaping'. If kids are escaping she's gone past the limits of her capacity and capability imo.

If you haven’t seen the report or complaint, how do you know that’s what happened? Did the childminder tell you or have you heard third hand?

To be honest, I’m a childminder and if my child escaped from another minders home then I would likely remove them depending on the details. Really because I would be worried it would happen again. Whilst I understand accidents happen, for the police to get involved had the childminder not immediately noticed? How far away is the park? Did the child leave without the mindees knowledge or did the child manage to evade the minder when she was trying doing handover or similar? Not that any of these things are acceptable but the devil is in the detail.

Ofsted reports, complaints and actions are readily available online if you want to find out a little more. it won’t have all the details but the gist of what happened will be there.