Nurseries and childminders face penalties ¿if children in their care don¿t feel loved¿

January 10th, 2012

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Sarah Harris

Last updated at 10:23 PM on 9th January 2012

Childminders and nurseries face being penalised by Ofsted in future if they cannot prove that youngsters in their care ‘feel loved’, it was revealed yesterday.

Staff will have to demonstrate they are ‘forming appropriate bonds and emotional attachments’ with babies and toddlers to help make them feel secure.

The watchdog plans to place greater emphasis on young children’s personal and emotional development during inspections as opposed to focusing on health and safety issues such as risk assessments.

Nursery staff could face penalties if they cannot prove the children in their care feel loved

Ofsted has launched a consultation on changes to the way it registers and inspects early years providers, which proposes slashing the number of judgements from 18 to just five.

In future, childminders and nurseries will be judged on their ‘outcomes’ for children; the quality of provision in terms of supporting children’s learning and development and helping them to feel ‘emotionally secure’; leadership and management and overall effectiveness.

Under outcomes for children, inspectors will assess the progress youngsters have made since starting childcare.

Inspectors will also examine youngsters’ ‘physical and emotional well-being’. This is the extent to which children are ‘physically, mentally and emotionally healthy, adopt healthy and hygienic practices and are developing their knowledge of self-care and personal needs’.

Ofsted will assess ‘whether all children, especially very young children and those in need of additional support, are forming appropriate bonds and emotional attachments with carers that help children to feel loved and contribute to their emotional well-being’.

The consultation will cut the number of judgements made by Ofsted from 18 to just five

Other aspects to be examined include how well children behave and understand that some actions are ‘unacceptable’ and ‘the extent to which children are developing positive relationships with adults and other children and are able to join in and cooperate’.

Nurseries and childminders will be judged on how ‘safe, happy and comfortable’ they make children feel and their effectiveness in teaching them to take turns, share, make friends and ‘develop phonic knowledge’, which involves learning the sound of letters and how to blend them together.

Currently, inspectors pay particular attention to ‘safeguarding’ such as whether a nursery ensures the suitability and qualifications of all adults looking after children; if it carries out effective risk assessments and takes action to ‘manage or eliminate risks’.

This area has now been merged into the overall leadership and management judgement and is far less prominent under the proposed shake-up.

Inspectors will just look at the ‘extent to which clear policies, strategies and procedures ensure that the safeguarding and welfare of children meet legal requirements, are implemented consistently and reflected in day to day practice’.

For the first time Ofsted will judge a children's nursery on the physical and emotional well-being of its children

For the first time Ofsted will judge a children’s nursery on the physical and emotional well-being of its children

Previously, inspectors have also received more detailed guidance over evaluating the extent to which children feel safe as well as adopt healthy lifestyles.

Jean Humphrys, director of education and care at Ofsted, said: ‘Removing unnecessary regulation and bureaucracy is important to providers.

‘Ofsted is aiming to find the right level of enforcement to ensure that children are safe and well cared for. Our overriding ambition is to ensure that every child has the best possible start in life.’

Meanwhile unannounced inspections for most group provision will remain and childminders and holiday play schemes will be called no more than five days in advance of an inspection.

Childminders will be required to undertake relevant training before applying to the childcare register. At present, they can undertake training within six months of registration.

Ofsted also plans to carry out full inspections if it receives a complaint about a setting and will publish the report on its website. It currently investigates the area of concern.

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The government and society in general don’t value the work of a stay at home parent at all. “Go out and get proper jobs” they tell us, and then force us to hand our children to someone else. Seems it’s okay to care for children at home as long as they’re not your own.
It’s a sad state of affairs, and I truly believe that the more families with two full-time working parents has a knock on effect on the behaviour and anti social actions of this younger generation. It’s so sad that we’re in a place where child care services have to love our children for us, because we can’t – we’re too busy trying to feed, house and clothe them to spend time nurturing them.

– crunchymama, Northumberland, UK, 10/1/2012 06:07

Loving, that will cost extra folks. Oh dear, the government has just increased child care charges.

– Trevor, Ammanford, Wales, 10/1/2012 05:51

Absolutely preposterous!

– CWG, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 10/1/2012 05:47

To Jessica USA; The fear has to be the real objective is to remove parents from the equation as this approach will run alongside a beefing up of social services habit of child abduction through our secret “family” courts. Expect to see more pregnant women perhaps in their thousands fleeing the UK.
Only “approved” parents will be allowed to have day to day “custody” of children.

– john heppell, Lingwood, England, 10/1/2012 05:39

This makes sense to me. I was a nanny to several families for years, and I know each child in each family felt loved by me. One of my little charges told me I couldn’t get married because “You have to stay here and look after the children”. So sweet.
Happy children make happy, well adjusted and confident adults. We owe it to them and to society.

– julie, maidstone,kent, 10/1/2012 05:28

But if they give the kids a cuddle, they will be accused of all sorts. You can’t have it both ways.

– boewulf, England, 10/1/2012 04:49

Will parents face the same penalties?

– Jessica, NYC, USA, 10/1/2012 04:12

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