Extended Services Childcare Team offer a range of services to potential new childcare providers such as Childminders, Out Of School Clubs, Full Day Care, Sessional Care and Crèches.
These services include support and advice on:
- Conducting consultations to determine the need for new childcare services
- Suitability of premises
- Management & governance
- Staff recruitment & retention
- How to achieve Ofsted registration & meeting the National Standards for under 8s day care and childminding
- Obtaining a Disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau
- Policies, procedures and operational plans
- Training opportunities
- Financial planning
- Marketing
- Funding & grants
- Achieving long-term sustainability
- Signposting to other key agencies
Please find below a number of Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) forms and templates:
- Accident Log (.pdf, 56.1kb)
- Action & Development Plan (.pdf, 5.30kb)
- Annual Risk Assessment (.pdf, 5.37kb)
- Attendance Register for Children (.pdf, 3.77kb)
- Attendance Register for Staff (.pdf, 3.61kb)
- Concerns and Complaints About Childcare Providers (.pdf, 185kb)
- CRB (.pdf, 3.68kb)
- Daily Risk Assessment Checklist (.pdf, 21.8kb)
- Daily Risk Assessment for Childminders (.pdf, 18kb)
- ECM Policies Outline (.pdf, 8.55kb)
- Evaluation of Training Form (.pdf, 5.20kb)
- Fire Evacuation Log (.pdf, 4.55kb)
- Five Steps to Risk Assessment (.pdf, 78.2kb)
- Food Safety (.pdf, 19.7kb)
- How Effective Is The Provision in Meeting The Needs of Children in The EYFS (.pdf, 26.6kb)
- Incident Log (.pdf, 56.2kb)
- Infection Control (.pdf, 290kb)
- Learning Journeys (.pdf, 7.67kb)
- List of Templates (.pdf, 4.41kb)
- Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Setting (.pdf, 306kb)
- Marketing Strategy Template (.pdf, 4.88kb)
- Medication Record (.pdf, 6.25kb)
- My Early Years Passport Template (.pdf, 791kb)
- Out of School Club Induction Checklist (.pdf, 5.85kb)
- Parent-Provider Childcare Contract (.pdf, 12kb)
- Planned Outings Risk Assessment (.pdf, 10.3kb)
- Planned Outings - Open Farm Visits (Childminders) Avoiding infection on Farm Visits (External link)
- Planned Outings - Open Farm Visits (Nurseries) Preventing or Controlling Ill Health From Animal Contact At Visitor Attractions (.pdf, 245kb)
- Planned Outings - Open Farm Visits Video Clip. Campaigns Farmsafe (External link)
- Record of Complaints Log (.pdf, 13.6kb)
- Required Policies, Procedures and Records (.pdf, 6.98kb)
- Smoke Alarm Check Record (.pdf, 4.11kb)
- Staff Training Matrix (.pdf, 4.37kb)
- Visitors Record – Example (.pdf, 4.35kb)
- What Quality Looks Like (.pdf, 313kb)
- WSCBB Brochure (.pdf, 311kb)
