CM Club - lets have a list of the crazy things Ofsted expect when then inspect............

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I heard about the jug of water to be freely available for children UNDER 2 years old to HELP THEMSELVES to at any time (imo a health and safety issue!)

Then I just read that someone was expected to have a bin in each room and a box of tissues for EACH mindee. (imo it's a load of bollox, my lot are too young to know which box of tissues are theirs, if they wiped themselves they'd end up with it in their eyes and probably get conjunctivitis and as for the bin....yeah....they'd LOVE finding a way of emptying a little bin they could actually reach!! )

I'm now PMSL and wondering what other things they expect these days. I reckon they must get really bored sometimes and sit round a table inventing crazy TARGETS for these babies and toddlers etc!!!

So, come on.....there must be a whole load of other stuff. The towels thing has been around for years but what else?????

Hand towels washed daily

Yeah, got the towels thing. My hubby hates how we get through so many towels!!! I thought they were bad enough when I was marked down for washing hand towel every other day when only had 1 mindee but all this other stuff.....well.....I don't even know what to say as it's just crazy!!

so....

Towels
Drinks
Tissues
Bins

Any more???

better computer facilities for a 3-year-old

playing in the sandpit clearly not sophisticated enough

Cory - really? Was this said to a CM you know? I personally do computer stuff early if they want to but only because that's my thing and I enjoy it. I certainly wouldn't think it's something we were EXPECTED to do!!!

Access to sand year round. Actually, my floor is usually covered in sand, due to the free flow of indoor out door play, I think i can get around this one by suggesting that I roll the babies around on the floor twice a day, in manner of breadcrumbing chicken pieces!

I am just going through creative dvmt section in practice guidance, to see what next steps are for a music observation.........I need to next invite DANCERS AND PERFORMERS to my setting.

You see what I like about the eyfs and the suggestions they make, is taht it is all really realistic and acheivable.

Swan lake in my living room.....

have pets, they are fantastic for kids.
Dont let them in your kitchen.

Let children have free range to paint etc. (this was not my recent Ofsted, but the one before)I could just imagine the colours of my walls if I left the paint out all the time with 3 children under 21 months!

OH! I have another, a cm was told that she has to do eyfs obs and individual learning plan on a child that she has for fifteen minutes twice a week, literally just to walk to school. LOL
Lots of putting shoes on by self observations.

My biggest bug bear when ofsted come around is they tell you to carry on doing your normal routine!!!

We would probably be out at a group or the park (would be great if they came with us). But what mindee behaves how they normally do when there is a stranger in your home.

Well apparently even washing hand towels daily isn't enough. Towels on pegs next to each other could still cause cross contamination! What a load of codswallop!

CM is now using kitchen roll in her loo for drying hands so it can be thrown in the bin each time.

I am dreading it this time, Mumlove, as my ds will get really bored with me talking to inspector and all three will play up massively, I think.
I have heard cm's talking about using paper towels for both hand drying and dish drying!!!

Seriously if they keep this up what are we going to do?

When I set up I really hoped I'd be doing this long term but it's only been a short time and I'm already sick them (ofsted/ the government), I'm trying not to stress about it (because as long as the dc's and parents are happy that's what I care about) but really looking after 3 under 3 is hard/ tiring enough without their inconsistancies/ demands/ unrealistic expectations etc

I have a hand dryer (in both bathrooms), so that the children ignore use it to dry hands, thus no need for individual towels. Dry dishes thats what the airs for!!!

where does one buy a hand dryer and how much did that cost!!!

and was it one ofthose cool dyson ones??!!

With the towel thing, I was told I need to have seperate towels for each mindee. I have a really small bathroom. I only have one mindee, so not too bad but to be honest, I collect her from school at 3.30pm, takes us at least half hour to walk home and then she is gone by 5pm a lot of the time. So most days she doesn't even use the bathroom. Am I meant to have a seperate towel for her? Can I just wash my hand towel each time she actually uses it? She is only here 3 days a week too. So really doesn't use it much. And wouldn't remember which towel is hers anyway.

When I had my pre reg they told me I needed to clean my skirting boards as they were not clean enough . Bearing in mind I have a crawling baby and 3 cats so they are never going to be spotless.

I think that you could say that you just put a fresh towel in the bathroom on the days she visits? LOL @ skirting boards!

this should be sent to a tv channel. they cant be allowed to get away with all these demands. no wonder everyone is giving up

clear see throgh toy boxes with label on. shoould have a picture and the word ie. trains, dolls, small world. coz yes, they right toys are always in the right box.

She can't use your hand towel (she might catch something off you, that preparing her food, wiping her bum, kissing her, hugging her wouldn't )

So put a clean one out for her (I use flannels - get a character one for her?)

the CM i work for uses that alcohol gel stuff

I also use flannels, and just use a fresh one for everything, wiping faces after meals, drying hands and so on, then they go in a waterproof bag and get bunged in the washing machine when bag is full. I got mine really cheaply in ikea. You could also get a really cheap pack of Junior Joy terry towelling nappies (look on ebay) and put a fresh one of those as a hand towel in a designated place for her to use? No one will know its a nappy!

No problem in my house with passing on germs through using same towel. Kids all use their own sleeves and dresses to wipe noses and hands after washing.

No problem in my house with passing on germs through using same towel. Kids all use their own sleeves and dresses to wipe noses and hands after washing.