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All about me and our Home setting.

I was registered in January 2011 with Ofsted, I am fully insured with the national childminding association.

My Qualifications

City & Guilds 1988
Industrial,social & Environmental studies
Office skills and practices.
Commercial technology (theory & Science)
Communication Studies

June 1990
City & Guilds
Small Animal Care

June 2003
Screwfix Direct
Fulfilment Operations
Employee of the month

2004
With Voyage,
Protection of vulnerable adults
Calm training
Challenging Behaviour
Introduction to Total Communications
Practice Signs and Symbols
Autism
Prader-Willie Syndrome
Safe Manual Handling

August 2005
Certificate of Unit Credit Towards
Level 2 certificate in working with People Who have Learning Disabilities
INDUCTION - SAFE PRACTITIONER
INDUCTION-LEARNING DISABILITY
Protection of vulnerable adults

February 2010
Child Protection Awareness
Somerset Care
(SLSCB)

July 2010
Introduction to Childminding Practice
(part of the accredited qualification CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Home-based Childcare)
Introduction to the Early Years Foundation Stage

June 2010
Early Years Paediatric First Aid Certificate

July 2011
Allied Healthcare Group
First aid e-learning and Manual Handling and practical
Health & Safety
Basic Food Hygiene
Infection Control
Medication Awareness
Protection of vulnerable Adults (POVA)
Fire Safety & Moving and Handling

NCFE Level 2 certificate in dementia awareness 13/09/11

August 2011 Safeguarding Children e-Academy

SCIL, e-safety,

SCIL, Early child development-Foundation.

SCIL, Safeguarding Children with Disabilities

At the moment I am in the process of gaining a certificate for an Nvq in health and social care with Allied Health Care Group.

Also I am in the process of studying for a Level 3 Diploma in home-based childcare. Due to complete beginning 2012

I am new to childminding, but have experience as I have 2 children of my own.

We live near a wooded area and often see Squirrels on our garden fence.

We have a nature look out,  from an upstairs window we can look out of the window and see all sorts of birds. We have bird feeders in the trees and a nest box that had a successful family of Blue tits earlier this year. (provided by our lovely neighbour) We could watch the birds taking bits into the box for their nest building. Then we watched the birds taking food into the nest and the best bit was seeing 6 baby birds on the bird feeder with mum and dad watching proudly.  We have on a few occasions seen a woodpecker.( photo below)

Snowdrops in the garden

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