NEW! The Ultimate Childminding Inspection Preparation Pack September 2026

UPDATED to meet all the requirements of the September 2026 EYFS.

Is your Ofsted Inspection imminent? Do not panic. This bundle will help you prepare AND will save you £10 off the price of buying these resources separately.

This bundle pack contains full versions of the Ultimate Childminding Checklist September 2026 and the 4 in 1 Safeguarding September 2026 pack as well as the Leadership and Governance Self-evaluation workbook 2026/2027. This will help make sure you have all the bases covered.

Knowing that your Ofsted Inspection is due can feel stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. Being prepared and knowing that you have everything in place can help massively reduce any stress or worry about your inspection.

This new bundle pack of useful resources has been put together to help you:

• Check that you have everything in place with the Ultimate Childminding Checklist. (Updated to meet all the requirements of the September 2026 EYFS for Childminders.) and the Safeguarding Audit list. 
• Update and/ or check your Safeguarding Policy so that everything is in place using the Editable Safeguarding Policy.
• Revise your safeguarding knowledge so that you feel prepared for questions on the day with multiple choice safeguarding questions.
• Quickly and easily evaluate your Leadership and Governance to make sure you are at the 'expected standard'. (Along with Safeguarding this is the other area you MUST get an expected standard grading for to continue to be eligible to provide funded places.)
• Relax with the puzzles and mindfulness colouring sheets that are also included in your pack, knowing that you have done everything to put things in place for a successful childminding inspection.

More information

The Ultimate Childminding Checklist September 2026:

The Ultimate Childminding Checklist is an essential tool for every childminder. Completely updated to meet all EYFS September 2026 standards.

This resource should be in every childminder’s toolkit. The pack now contains four checklists in one:

• All the things you MUST be doing to meet the EYFS requirements Checklist
• Working With Assistants Checklist
• Countdown to your Ofsted Inspection Checklist
• Exceptional Checklist

For full information about the Ultimate Childminding Checklist please click here.

The September 2026 4 in 1 Safeguarding Pack:

This 4 in 1 safeguarding pack for childminders contains three useful tools in one pack. An editable safeguarding policy, 40 multiple choice safeguarding questions and a safeguarding audit list.

• Resource one: A detailed and fully editable safeguarding and child protection policy for childminders. The policy in this pack is designed to help you create a policy which is tailored exactly to your childminding setting, meeting the requirements of the EYFS and helping you make sure you have everything covered effectively. It has been fully reformatted for 2026 to make it much more user friendly. 
• Resource Two: Notes on types of abuse and harmful situations.
• Resource Three: Forty multiple choice safeguarding questions to help you revise your safeguarding knowledge.
• Resource Four: Safeguarding Audit Tool. 
• BONUS RESOURCE: Safer Sleep Policy

• For full information about the 4 in 1 Safeguarding pack please click here.

Leadership and Governance Self Evaluation Workbook 2026/2027

This is the first in a series of special workbooks aimed at childminders, that will help you go through the new Early Years Inspection Toolkit to evaluate your setting and put on place an action plan to help you improve or maintain your existing standards. 

This workbook focuses on the 'Leadership and Governance' area of inspection evaluation. It is broken down into separate sections, each covering one of the new Ofsted inspection judgement standards. Each section breaks down the requirement descriptions from the Early Years Inspection Toolkit into smaller, easy to understand chunks to make you practice easier to evaluate. There is also guidance on every section. This is to help you to understand what might be expected of you in order to meet each inspection standard. There is space for your notes next to each section and an 'action plan' template to help you organise your plans for improvement.

Why is it so important to evaluate how you meet the Leadership and Governance requirements?

There are now two areas of inspection you absolutely have to pass if you wish to offer funded places to your families. These are Safeguarding and Leadership and Governance. (For help meeting the safeguarding requirements please refer to the 4 in 1 Safeguarding Pack.)

The Statutory Guidance ‘Early Education and Childcare (valid from 1 April 2026) states:

‘The guidance outlines the circumstances in which local authorities are not required to make arrangements with providers for the delivery of the free entitlements following receipt of a ‘specified grade’ after an inspection by Ofsted. The definition of specified grade is as follows:

Latest inspection took place from 10 November 2025:

• For Early Learning for 2-year-olds – ‘needs attention’ or below in leadership and governance or safeguarding is ‘not met’
• For all entitlements – ‘urgent improvement’ in leadership and governance or safeguarding is ‘not met’

In other words, if you have children aged 2 and under on funding you must get a ‘met’ for safeguarding and ‘Expected Standard’ for Leadership and Governance.’

If you have children aged 3 and over, you must get a ‘met’ for safeguarding and at least ‘needs attention’ for Leadership and Governance.

As you can see, evaluating your Leadership and Governance is absolutely essential so that you can ensure you are meeting all the requirements in order to pass your inspection. 

• For full information about the Leadership and Governance Self - Evaluation Workbook please click here.

Bundle Length: 192 pages

IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ

N.B This pack is supplied as separate downloadable PDF and Word documents. (Three of each, six downloads in total.) If you cannot find your download links please check you junk mail first before contacting me at jennifer@wellywren.co.uk. 

Products ARE NOT sent out by post.

This pack is for individual setting use only.

This pack must only be used by the person buying it to use in a childminding or small early years setting with no more than four members of staff. You may not share any of the contents with anyone else outside your setting. Welly Wren Ltd is a small business so please support me by buying your own copy.

Permission is not granted for any of the contents of this pack to be be used or distributed to members within an agency, organisation, charity, council, trust, or any other business that is not a childminding business or small early years setting with no more than four members of staff.

Breaches of copyright and distribution permissions will result in legal action being pursued. 

FREE UPDATE GUARANTEE

This Welly Wren product come with a free update guarantee. If this product is updated at any point, within three years of your purchasing your pack and you are on the Childminding Best Practice Mailing list you are entitled to free updated copies.  If you are a member of the Childminding Best Practice Club you are entitled to free updated no matter how long ago you bought your product. See the frequently asked questions for more information.