Hilltop House Childcare - Admissions Policy
Admissions Policy
As Ofsted registered Childminders we are restricted to the number and ages of children that we can care for at any one time. These details are on our Ofsted Registration Certificates, which are displayed during our minding hours.
In total we are registered to care for eleven children under 8 years old:
- Five children under 5 years
- Six children between 5 & 8 years.
We also take children over 8 years, but numbers are not regulated by Ofsted.
We are happy to take on any baby/child within our registered numbers and will not discriminate against children or their families for reasons such as race, religion, sex or ability. However we would like to make the following statements:
We already drop off/collect children from Swalecliffe Community Primary School. We are able to collect from one other school, but as soon as this is chosen/arranged we will then be unable to collect from any other school. We are happy to accept children from other schools, if other arrangements for drop off/collection can be made.
We currently don’t drop off/collect from any pre-school, so this can be arranged, as long as the timing does not coincide with school runs.
We are happy to take on children with special needs providing we feel we can provide them with the care they need. (For example we will not be able to provide one to one care or look after a child in a wheelchair, as our home is not suitable) If your child has additional needs please discuss them with us first as we do not want to raise your expectations.
All children will be welcomed into our home and we will encourage the other children in our care to support us with this. We require a four-week settling in period on our contract, so if you, your child or we not happy with the arrangement it can be terminated easily. When taking on additional children we must take into consideration the children already in our care who are happy and settled. It would be very unfair on them to introduce a child who was disruptive.
If you have any concerns regarding our admissions policy please do not hesitate to contact us.