Petition to No.10 regarding Childcare arrangements!

stormbreaker

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle wrote: »

I have stuck this over on mumsnet - i hope they don't mind. I think this needs all the help it can get!

Brilliant.....thank you.

This petition will not benifit me unless when I am a granny(hopefully not for many years to come) the same or worse rules apply.

As a mother I think you should be able to choose between a trusted friend or a stranger who is regulated by strangers, who may a look after more children who are also strangers.

Legislation is brought in to protect children but this is taking things one step too far. No amount of legislation will protect children 100% from abuse or accidents. Accidents will always happen regardless whos care they are in.

I understand there are perhaps more pressing things for the government be looking at, however is that not, why there is a structure to the government, where differant ministers are tasked with differant issues.

It might interest some that these ladies were informed that they would be under surveilance should Ofsted suspect they did not change their child minding arrangements. Now I am sorry but is that not a complete and utter waste of public money?

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Completely agree Stormbreaker.

I think it's all just another way to tax tax tax rather than for the good of the child. If you put your child in to registered childcare tax is earnt from the childminder and also from you - wheras otherwise in every instance like this they lose tax incomes, which one or two wouldn't matter, but hundreds of thousands would. So ultimately it's not about creating a better society, it's all boils down to money sadly.

Its gutting really because this country seems to be losing it's morals big time. And in turn we end up with non-existent parents becuase they are left with no option but to work all day and have little control over their children as they are not able to be there, (don't get me wrong but i DO think one parent should always work where possible - i am a bit old fashioned i think) the kids get fed up and sometimes cause mischief and this leads to digressing behaviour in the new generations.

It's why my OH works like crazy to keep me home to look after madam until she is off to school full time - in which then i will do my best to find work in the hours she is at school and continue to do so hopefully until she leaves secondary school - just so she has a parent at home to control the home-life when she is not in the care of the school - if that makes sense.

I understand that not all parents are able to do this - it just happens to be this way with us as we have had bad luck with childminders so won't be going back down that route. I think if you can find a recommended childminder that you know or can get to know and trust then great - just it's not always that way

SandC

It's not really to do with child safety at all anyway. A dodgy adult interested in children will go out of their way to work with them, which includes getting registered, work in schools etc. Remember they are only on offenders registers after they get caught!

It's not like parents are sticking their children with the nice man who offered down the street is it?

Mme.Hibou

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle wrote: »

Some, not all at all(in fact i'm sure just a minority) of chilminders tend to do the job so THEY can stay home with their own children - they think the job will be so easy (it's not at all) and then get overwhelmed at the amount of work it is. Sometimes they don't even like children but do it just for the money and the fact they can stay at home. Then take on their maximum limit of children and can't cope but won't reduce the amount as they don't want to lose the money.

BTW i do now some lovely childminders too - just in the area i used to live in every other mum was a registered childminder and too many doing it for the wrong reasons

Childminding is something I've been considering since I had my baby nearly 7 months ago. I honestly can't bear the thought of leaving him in a nursery or with a childminder when I could look after him myself. So yeah, my initial thought is so that I can stay at home with him, having thought about it more, I worry that if I got qualified I would spend hours after work doing paperwork and thus I'd actually end up spending less time with him on a one to one basis. I couldn't take other people's children into my home and not devote the same love and attention onto them as I do to my own DS.

I don't think there's anything wrong with people childminding so that they can stay with their own baby and work from home, I mind people watching Jeremy Vile and Trisha with the children stuck in a play-pen until the ofsted inspector arrives and it's deemed to be the number one place to be!

As long as people know that accidents do happen and they can happen anywhere then people should be able to care for children they know without registering.

Have people started having their boyfriends/girlfriends CRB checked before they let them start staying over, yet, or letting them look after their children?

Edinburghlass_2

A good result....:T

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8277378.stm

Mme.Hibou

It's all over the news today.

carrotcruncher

Hi,

To cut a long story short:

My boyfriend lived with his ex and her son for several years, never got married and then split up.

The son thinks of boyfriend as a step dad (only sees biological father once or twice a year) so stays with us every other weekend. This has been going on for years, son is now 13.

We are not family / related, we are not registered childminders, are we breaking the law????

I'm gobsmacked at all this and don't know what to think.

Can anyone advise?

Carrotcruncher

PS. Just signed petition.

Fly_Baby

My friend is a childminder and although I don't know all the particulars - such as intending to watch more than 1 child when you register - I do rememeber that she had to shell out £500+ in registration and all necessary checks she had to undergo. Not to mention that it can take 7-8 months, according to he experience...

miss_spooky

I've signed it, but the whole issue of children is oging crazy. The Government claimed last week that all families who do the school run will have to be crb checked. If this is the case, it's just going to create more work problems & force more cars on the roads....

tizhimi

Wow I've just seen this in the news.... I feel so micro managed by the governement, goodness me - political correctness gone mad.

I looked at a child the other day playing in the park ... OH MY GOD! Arrest me quick!

I just don't want to have every single part of my life regulated, the can shove it where the sun don't shine.

I've signed the petition.