Nanny employers, how do you feel about Ofted inspecting your nanny in your home?

[AtheneNoctua]

Following on from the below linked threads, I am shocked and appalled at this level of inspection invasion. My nanny is not Ofsted registered. But if she was, I would tell Ofsted to meddle elsewhere.

Ofsted nanny inspection - what do I need?

Ofsted comming tomorrow for a chat,

Re: Common core and EU applicants - I have a UK PGCE, an MPhil and a PhD in Education, and lecture Early Years education students (amongst others). I also sit on panels to validate Early Years Foundation degrees and so on.

I actually asked OFSTED out of interest at one point if my qualifications would permit me to become an approved childcarer and they said no, because my qualifications were not on 'the list'.

After perusing 'the list', I realised I would have to go on one of those dreadful day courses and sit a multiple choice test for the brain dead in order to qualify.

Something has to be very, very wrong if extensive training and practice in education has to be replaced by a simplistic multiple choice test in order to clear a hurdle. The anti-intellectualisation of Early Years childcare is now complete, I fear.

The List is controlled it seems by CWDC not by Ofsted. So yep, if the course isn't on the CWDC list, then it's not recognised. Though in the Ofsted document I linked to previously, it does say that other courses will be considered - "Any other training or qualification will be accepted providing the childcare provider can demonstrate that it is Common Core compliant."

It is wrong isn't it... same thing happens when someone with an NVQ Level 3 or above applies to be a childminder, they still have to do Unit 1 ICP.

Makes a joke of the vocational training system, when people have to go backwards. That was never the aim of developing NVQs.

I have actually never understood why an NVQ3 is fine for someone to be an OFSTED reg nanny but not okay for them to be a childminder?