One of the first things we had to do, when setting up our 15-place nursery the Owl in the Tree, was get to grips with the Ofsted registration process.
For anyone who thinks this is easy, try spending some early mornings and late nights wrestling with DBS certificates and EY2 forms and come back to me.
First of all you go online. You need your own government gateway password, and from there you start to fill the forms which identify what sort of establishment are. This will help Ofsted decide what other forms you need to complete. There is then a separate EY2 declaration and consent form. You have to self-assess your personal criteria, health check, current DBS certificate, necessary qualifications. It is a long process and you have to be patient.
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