Following on from the uproar over the recent Ofsted visit to a couple of police women job and child care sharing I've come across this London Times article.
It raises the very interesting point that children's playdates also appear to break the Ofsted rules!
The BBC's Q&A article on the Ofsted rules thinks that reciprocal (is there any other sort) play dates would be illegal.
I think that a distinction should be made between situations when the parent is able to select individual carer - another child's parent in a play date or a work colleague in a job/child care share - and situations where the parent cannot select the individual carer - clubs, commercial child care and the like.
In the first situation the parent should be expected to be responsible for vetting and in the second the state should help out.
This still won't stop abuse - of children or carers - but it seems a good balance to me.
It raises the very interesting point that children's playdates also appear to break the Ofsted rules!
The BBC's Q&A article on the Ofsted rules thinks that reciprocal (is there any other sort) play dates would be illegal.
I think that a distinction should be made between situations when the parent is able to select individual carer - another child's parent in a play date or a work colleague in a job/child care share - and situations where the parent cannot select the individual carer - clubs, commercial child care and the like.
In the first situation the parent should be expected to be responsible for vetting and in the second the state should help out.
This still won't stop abuse - of children or carers - but it seems a good balance to me.
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