Making sure you comply with health and safety rules and regulations is a necessary part of any business and is also one of the major requirements of the EYFS in England. There are lots of things to be aware of such as safety in the home, food safety regulations, risk assessment, safer outings and so on. If you work in a larger setting such as a nursery you may have someone in charge of your health and safety policy who will help guide you about what you have to do but if you are a childminder it is down to you to check you have everything in place.
Click on any of the links below for resources to help you manage health and safety in your setting:
- Road Safety Tips for Childminders
- Road Safety Activities
- Road Safety Mini Quiz for Childminders
- Pelican Crossing Mobile
- Fire Safety
- Risk assessments for childminders
- Accident prevention – home and outings
- Getting Lost Procedures – for childminders and their children
- Teaching children to call 999 for an ambulance could literally save your life
- Internet and Screen Safety
- Smoother and Safer Mealtimes for Childminders
- Everything Childminders need to know about Food Business Legislation
- 17 childminders share their real accident stories – don’t let these happen to you!
- Do you have a poison childminding garden? Quiz
- What to teach childminded children about stranger danger
- Six Childminding Safety Hazards You Might Not Know
Products that can help you with health and safety in your setting:
Be Safe Be Healthy MEGA Pack
As a childminder you have a choice about what activities you do with the children you look after so why not do some topics that could really make a difference to their lives? Taking the time to explore topics like healthy eating, making friends, sun safety, oral health, fire and road safety will not only really help the children, but it will make you feel that you are doing something truly valuable with the time you are spending with them.
This pack is a collection of 14 mini printable packs with resources to help childminders to teach 14 health and safety topics to 2-5 year old children.
The Ultimate Childminding Checklist
The Ultimate Childminding Checklist is an essential tool for every childminder.
This resource should be in every childminder’s toolkit. The pack now contains four checklists in one:
- All the things you MUST be doing to meet the EYFS requirements Checklist
- Working With Assistants Checklist
- Countdown to your Ofsted Inspection Checklist
- Outstanding Checklist
