A Bristol childminder has quit and closed down after Ofsted found her “aggressive” dog kept knocking over toddlers and that they put its “toys and bones in their mouths”. The Staple Hill woman was “frequently too busy trying to manage” the pet’s behaviour, picking up toys and rocking kids in buggies to look after youngsters properly, according to a watchdog.
Government inspectors also discovered that “units containing toys fall forward on to children” and that she would turn on the TV to try to reduce the “chaos” but that it only added to the noise and disrupted tots trying to sleep. Ofsted rated the childminder as inadequate and were set to issue a welfare notice requiring urgent improvements but she instead chose to resign her registration.
Its report published this month following the inspection in January said: “Children’s safety is not assured, due to the childminder’s poor knowledge of risk assessment. She fails to identify and minimise hazards that might cause potential injury.
