{"id":1679,"date":"2009-03-12T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/mag\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2018-07-02T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:57:45","slug":"have-you-checked-whos-minding-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/have-you-checked-whos-minding-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you checked who\u2019s minding your child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\"><br \/>\nConcern is being raised over child safety and the quality of Ofsted Childcare Register checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">UK childcare agency Tinies, is raising the concern after surveying more than 700 parents <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">As a result of the economic downturn, 26.4 per cent of families have had to alter their childcare arrangements, and a further 24 per cent of parents are expecting to make changes in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">A huge 75 per cent of families had changed provider to reduce expensive childcare costs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Child minders are a popular option as they tend to be more flexible with time and less expensive but Tinies has raised concern over the lack of checks in place to ensure that they have the experience and qualifications they claim. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Knowle West, mother of two, Tina Bryant said: \u201cI find it frightening that people leave their children with childminders. As they are at work they don\u2019t see what I see when I go out. I have seen childminders smoking over babies and children in their care. I have seen them turn up with groups of children at playgroups and leave them on their own fighting and crying. My little girl was hurt by a child in a childminder\u2019s care. I had to tell this child to stop hurting my daughter. I was really nice but the childminder came over and told me to stop it, she would deal with it. But she never did. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cI saw the same childminder with the same child put a little boy in hospital after he went over and deliberately smashed this child\u2019s head in a gate. The childminder just shrugged. Nurseries are better because there are more people around to monitor who does what to the children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">Tinies, franchise director Amanda Coxen said:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt is understandable that many parents are looking to reduce their childcare costs, however, we are concerned that some of the checks that parents expect to have been carried out when hiring a nanny registered on the Ofsted Childcare Register (OCR), such as checks on their qualifications, are in fact only a tick box on the application form.\u00a0 Nannies on the OCR are not required to produce evidence that they are qualified, nor are they required to prove that they have any nanny experience at all. Until recently nannies registering on the OCR also didn\u2019t need to prove they had an up to date paediatric first aid certificate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201cWith more and more parents searching for childcare directly, we think it is important that the shortcomings of the Ofsted Childcare Register are highlighted and that parents do their own checks or use an agency that carries out these checks to ensure that they are safeguarding their children from any harm,\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;\">For more information on Tinies visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nannyshare.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\">www.nannyshare.co.uk<\/span><\/a>.<strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concern is being raised over child safety and the quality of Ofsted Childcare Register checks. \u00a0 UK childcare agency Tinies,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Have you checked who\u2019s minding your child? 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