Leadership & Management Childminding Resources

Most Leadership & Management childminding resources below are downloadable as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets, enabling you to tailor them to the unique requirements of your setting. All resources are EYFS 2102 friendly.

A questionnaire that you can give to a parent/carer if they terminate their contract with you.

A sheet for you to complete when you want to keep a record of a conversation you have had with a parent or carer.

Would you like to find out more about what children in your care do when not in your setting? If so ask parents to complete this record.

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Holiday Planner 2013

Childminder Holiday Dates form

Childminder changes to Holiday Dates form

This planner can be used to easily record when you and the children in your care will be on holiday. – Full guide on front page.

Form for you to complete to let parents know about your planned holiday dates. Includes reference to your charging structure over holidays taken.

Form for you to complete to let parents know about your changes to planned holiday dates plus additional holiday dates you plan to take.

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Parent Holiday Notification Slips

Parents’ questionnaire

Children’s questionnaire

For parents to complete to let you know about holiday that they plan to take.

A questionnaire based on the four EYFS themes for you to ask parents / carers to complete. You could ask parents / carers to complete this to aid your self-development, prior to completing your ‘Achieving my Potential: self – development plan’.

A visual questionnaire for children in your care to complete to help you to improve your practice. Each question is a picture (such as food) and the child answers by circling/ticking one of three faces.

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What I’ve been up to this week!

My Wow moment!

EYFS Assessment Permissions form

A weekly sheet to complete to let parents know about the child’s week. Use as an alternative to the ‘What I’ve been up to today!’ sheet.

Complete a slip and hand to a parent if their child has had a ‘Wow’ moment. Or give out blank slips for parents to complete when their child has a ‘Wow’ moment away from your setting.

A form specifically for gaining permission for carrying out EYFS required assessments. Also highlights to parents that it is an EYFS requirement.

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Achieving my Potential: Self – development plan

Head injury slip

Retainer Agreement

You can use this plan to help you to reflect on your current childcare practice as well as to build a plan for future development.It is structured to enable you to assess your practice through the four EYFS Themes.

Complete a slip and hand to parent / carer if their child sustains an injury to their head. Indicate where the injury is located by putting a cross at the right place on the image.

An agreement for you to complete if you require prospective parents to pay a retainer to keep a space open for their child. Check exact wording required with your Childminding Insurance provider.

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All about me!

Our house rules!

Complaints record

All about me! sheets, similar to the ones at the beginning of the EYFS 2012 Learning Journey.Covers ‘All about me!’, ‘My Family’ ‘What I like to eat’ and ‘What I like to do’.

House rules template with completed examples and pictures. Include the children in the creation of your house rules by making it a joint activity, change the words and the ‘thought up by’ name as appropriate.

The EYFS framework states that childminders must keep a record of any complaints they receive and their outcome.

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Accident or Incident Record

Additional Permissions

What I’ve been up to today!

Daily sheet

A form for keeping a record of the details of any incident or accident.To be signed by childminder and parent.

A daily sheet to complete to let parents know about the child’s day. Includes activities, food, drink, nappies, nap times and amazing achievements.

A form to be signed by the parent to gain permission for a variety of actions or activities including-Photographs- Applying sun tan lotion- Allowing child to touch pets

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Attendance Record

Cause for concern Record

Child record Form

An excel sheet to help you record the times each child has been in your care.Use one for each child.

A form for you to complete if you have a cause for concern about one of the children in your care. Includes space for recording next steps as well as longer term outcomes.

A 4 page form for parents to complete at the start of the childminding relationship.

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Childminding times & charges

Complaints & Compliments pack Cover

Daily diary advice

A template for you to add all information on opening times and prices of your setting.

A simple cover for you to use at the front of your Complaints & Compliment Folder pack.

Ideas on what you could include in the daily diary that you write to record information for parents of children in your care.

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Emergency contact list

Existing injuries Record

Fire logbook

Keep all your emergency contact information for all children in your care in one place, ideal for taking on outings.

A form for you to record any existing injuries apparent on a child as they come to your care.

A form to record any fire evacuation drills carried out and any problems encountered as well as how they were resolved.

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Fridge freezer temperature Record

How resources fit with the Themes and 5 Outcomes

Long term medication & treatment record

A form for keeping record of the temperature of your fridge freezer and freezer.

For keeping a record of all long term medication needs and administration of a child in your care.With signatures required by parent and childminder.

A one-page chart showing how all resources fit both with the EYFS Themes and the 5 Every Child Matters Outcomes.

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No Smoking sign

Permission for outings form

Portfolio pack cover

A simple sign to hang up in your house or hand out as part of your Parent Welcome Pack.

A form for gaining approval for both regular outings and one-off outings.

A simple cover for you to use at the front of your Portfolio pack folder.

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Short term medication & treatment record

Suggestions for parent welcome pack

Visitor Record

For keeping a record of all short term medication needs and medication administration of each child in your care.With signatures required by parent and childminder.

A form for keeping record of all visitors to your setting.

Suggestions as to what documents you could include in your Parent Welcome Pack.

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Welcome pack cover

What to provide for your child sheet

Risk Assessment Record

A simple cover for you to use at the front of your Welcome pack.

A general sheet to give to parents letting them know what to provide on a daily / weekly basis and what they should provide to be kept in your setting.

You can use this template to record your risk assessments.

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Example of a completed Risk Assessment Record

Child becomes sick record

Risk assessment record – Outings

A template for you to complete when a child in your care becomes ill.

An example of a completed Risk Assessment Record for you to gain ideas of how to record risk assessments completed in your home.

A form to record risk assessments for outings.

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Physical Intervention record

Special Star Certificate

Intimate care record

You must keep a record of any physical intervention used in your setting (where reasonable force to used to prevent children from injuring themselves or others or damaging property).

Certificates for you to give out to children in your care when they have been special stars! Two per page.

Use in combination with our ‘Nappy changing & Intimate care policy’ to record times when you provide intimate care.

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