Updated to include safer eating following the tragic death of Oliver Steeping and following his family's Eat Safe campaign to prevent choking deaths in childcare settings. This pack include detailed Risk Assessments and Risk Benefit document, to enable you to consider the risks that are relevant to your setting and practice and to give you the confidence to manage and utilise the risks posed to maxmise the children's safety and opportunity.
£7.50Risk is something that most childminders will worry about. These documents will save you time and support you with being able to manage the risks in the home and the outdoor environment to ensure that the children can play in safety but also to give them opportunity to explore a controlled risk, optimising their learning and experience.
The Health and Safety Executive have explicitly stated that they don't want the children's play environment to become sterile and devoid of all risk as they recognise that that is not conducive to learning. These documents will aid you in confidently creating environments that support children in all that they do.