Sarah is right you do need to do a risk assessment for all pets. I have 2 dogs and state in my policies that children will have supervised access only to them, that children will be shown how to speak/touch them appropriately and handwashing will take place afterwards. Keep all your vet books to show the inspector that your dog is routinely vaccinated/wormed/de-fleaed etc, our dogs use the backgarden and the front garden is for childminding only so there is no danger of contamination from dog waste. When I had my inspection last year our dog had just had puppies so they were all upstairs where I'm not registered but in previous years when I've been inspected they have been in the kitchen behind a high doggy gate from argos as the children don't have unsupervised access to the kitchen, and I explained that food bowls etc were picked up before childminding and that dogs were put out if we were going to be using the kitchen. hope that helps, I have been lucky so far all my inspectors have been ok about dogs. Most imprtantly my parents have been all for pets, as most of them are too busy/no garden etc and wanted their children to grow up with pets. Good luck I hope it goes wellx
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