My inspection is next week

[tammy]

Just wanted to say Thank you, I joined here a few weeks ago and you've helped so much with policies etc

The only thing I am slightly worried about is the risk assessment, does everyone have folders full of individual risk assessments? I'm at a loss where to start apart from obvious ones, I've done assessments on these:

craft activities

travelling in the car

trips to various places

walking to school

how picky do we need to be, i mean do we have to do a form for absolutely everything? like going to the toilet, eating, playing in the garden etc etc?

[son77]

I am interested in this as I had no idea we needed risk assessments for these things. I have done no risk assessments at all.

Good luck with your inspection too.

[tasha]

I have a risk assesment for each room in my house; potential danger - fireplace - action - fireguard. Garden, Car etc. This is reviewed every 6 months, or it I change something. I have a policy for Outings/trips out are covered in my health & safety policy. I also have a tick list of all the hazards and additional checks that have to be done ie check that the washing powder is on the high shelf, just before I start my working day. I put any risk assessments for activites into my planning (as part of my B23/EYFS). Hope this helps! Tasha

[tasha]

I have a risk assesment for each room in my house; potential danger - fireplace - action - fireguard. Garden, Car etc. This is reviewed every 6 months, or it I change something. I have a policy for Outings/trips out are covered in my health & safety policy. (Some childminders have separate policies for travelling in the ca walking to school etc, it's personal preference, I just lumped mine all together in one policy). I also have a hygienee policy and a nappy and toilet policy that covers the rest of the above. I also have a tick list of all the hazards and additional checks that have to be done ie check that the washing powder is on the high shelf, just before I start my working day. I put any risk assessments for activites into my planning (as part of my B23/EYFS). Hope this helps! Tasha

[tammy]

Thanks Tasha, I'll draft up a tick list as well I think

Have you got like a folder or something with all your activity planning in? you don't do a set plan for each day do you?

I'm not really up on planning, as I only childmind part time on and off I kind of do what we feel like doing on the day

[tasha]

I have a few folders full of activities for different topics suitable for different age groups. On these I have a risk assessment section; ie dough - supervise smaller ones to make sure they don't eat it!!! Older children, make sure they don't walk around with tools & keep them away from their face etc. I use trackers for each child to make sure that I'm covering the appropriate framework. I do monthly planning, but nothing too rigid just that I want to do this topic or these activies at sometime in the next month!
Tasha

[sarahnev707]

risk assessments are new with the eyfs - so we'll be getting training on them along with the raft of other new stuff that we'll have to do... just now i have a risk ass for every room, outings etc but i think they'll have to be more structured - waiting for advice on that one!

for activities, you should be able to show every day what you intend to do - not strict planning like a teacher does but have a written plan of what you are setting out and what you intend chidlren to get from the activities you are providing (following bttm or fs) - so you can show the activities are following childrne's interests and covering required learning and devleopment - have you looked at Angel's bttm activity stuff in the bttm file on here ? There are loads of ideas to get you started

Sarah x