RENTED ACCOMODATION???

[bigfamily4us]

Hi everyone,
I have been looking at the site for a few weeks now, decided to become a childminder as love children . hense having 5 (YES 5!! ) of my own!!
Mad to look after more? maybe? but mine are grwing and i really need to stop having so many. feel that this is so natural for me, love looking after children so can't wait to start.
The question i have that cannot find on here is: we are currently in rented accomodation and when i asked our local sure start, children childcare service about this they said OFSTED may need to see written permission from our landlord.
I think this may cause a problem as our landlord lives abroad and has an agent and they are really snubby and strick!! I am not sure they will allow this and say the landlords will not want it? even though the house is kept spotlessly clean and well maintained they do not know us as a family and we do get pre-judged.
What does everyone do about this. There must be loads of childminders in rented places as not many people can afford to buy now-a-days!

Thank you everyone for your help. I am so worried that i have built my hopes up to finally concerntrate on a career path after having kids that i will be let down because of this.

vikki

[kelly76x]

hi, i also rent from a private landlord and yes ofsted did want to see written permission from him but as he lives in bristol the agency wrote me a letter saying he had given permission but i have to be honest it wasent that easy to get at first he refused blank which i was really upset about as i had already done the icp course and had my hopes set on being a childminder i even offered him extra rent lol but as my hubby is alot calmer he spoke to the agency and explained everything, it turned out my landlord thought he had to take out public liability insurance ect he then said he would speak to his solictior and as long as he was ot going to be out of pocket he would agree which he did although it still took me 3 months to get my letter as the agency were short staffed i just had to agree to take out all the nessasray insurance needed and he was ok.
hope that helps

[charleyfarley]

When hubby was in the army , the last posting he had the army had to rent us a house (no quarters).
We went to view 2 houses and 1 (landlord was a fireman) point blank said no to me childminding.

The other landlord had no problem, hence we rented that house.

Can't see the difference between children living there full time or being minded there.

Perhaps it is because the landlord thinks it will cost them money, after all they do rent the house out to make money.

We also had to go through an agent even though our landlord lived next door to us.

Carol xx

[bigfamily4us]

Thanks for both your messages. I am really worried about this because we do find it hard to rent having 5 kids and finding somewhere big enough is such a problem. we always get pre judged and if they won't let us we will have to find somewhere else to live. love it here and on a childminding note it is perfect!!
What a great website this is by the way. loads of info!

[angeldelight]

Hi Vikki

Hope you are enjoying the forum

I started minding when my 6 were little YES 6 !!!
I understand what you mean when you say people pre - judge you because you have a large family
Ignore them all !!!

Back to your problem with the house

Well all I can say is my mom and dad live in Spain - they have a property in UK and they rent it out like your landlord does to you
They also have an agency deal with everything
Their agency are a little abrupt too but I guess they have to be


I have spoke to my mom and she said why don't you write your landlord a letter explaining your situation to your landlord - ask your agent to pass it on
It is obvious you keep your house clean so your landlord must know this because my mom said every so often they get a report from the agent letting them know the house is ok and kept clean
So that all goes in your favour

She said if you explain that you are going to have to put in stair gates etc and that you will not damage the property in anyway then they might be ok with with it
They will also respect the fact that you have contacted them

My mom said they are never worried what anyone does to their house as long as it is kept clean and tidy and they do not abuse it and have wild parties etc

My mom also pointed out that your landlord is happy knowing you have a large family otherwise they would not be letting you stay their in the first place - so another few children should make no difference at all

Good luck keep us posted I would like to know what they say

Angel xx