Nursery World - Partnership formed to improve childminder food safety inspections

The Northamptonshire Childminding Association (NCA) and South
Northamptonshire Council's (SNC) health protection team are the first to
form a partnership for better regulation of food safety inspections for
childminders.

Elaine Pitteway, executive director of the NCA, told Nursery World that the idea behind the partnership is to ensure food safety inspections of Northamptonshire childminder settings, carried out by the local authority, are tailored to childminders and that inspectors give consistent advice.

According to Ms Pitteway, childminders often receive conflicting advice from food safety inspectors, including whether or not they need a separate sink for handwashing.

The NCA and SNC's health protection team have formed a partnership under the Government's Better Regulation Delivery Office primary authority scheme, which allows businesses to be involved in their own environmental health regulation and to form a statutory partnership with one local authority.

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