De-registering from Ofsted
 

Hi, at the minute I work in a local playgroup which at the moment is Ofsted registered. I am the manager and have a level 3, the other supervisor also had a level 3 but last Friday handed her notice in and gave us this half term week to find a new member of staff. After speaking to Ofsted they said we cannot open the doors on Monday without a level 2 or above person, as the manager doesn't count towards the 50% qualified staff ratio. We cannot find anyone and our PSLA development worker has given us 3 options
1) to shut down completely, all assetts to go to PSLA
2) open as mums and tots for 4 days a week, or
3) de-register from Ofsted and go under 2 hours.
After an emergency meeting with committee and parents this morning it was agreed that we'd de-register as no one wanted to bring the child to mums and tots every day or for playgroup to shut. Has anyone done this and carried on successfully, what are the differences in being registered and de-registered, insurance etc
Hope someone can help help us we are running out of time and funds and any advice would be much appreciated.

if you go under 2 hours and arent a registered setting i dont think you will be able to recieve early years funding for childrens sessions, this may be difficult for you if you have to rely on parents fees only,have you tried contacting local colleges to see if they have any newly qualified students they might be interesed in a job, local nvq assessors may know someone as well.
Have you spoken to the early years department from the local authority they may have bank staff scheme for settings or know of someone.
Good luck with it all.

Thanks for your advice, we have contacted colleges put adverts around the village advertised further afield but no luck. 3 mums have asked to join our committee and have some brilliant fundraising ideas they've also suggested running a holiday club which would go down a bomb in our village.
Thanks again.