Free, from Staffbook
The staff file pack every children's home should already have.
The spreadsheets and checklists that get a home ready for inspection. Built properly. Free to keep, copy and share. Tell us where to send it and it lands in your inbox in a minute.
What you get
The workbook. Nine tabs that do real work by themselves:
- Training matrix with instant answers. Type the date a course was done and the cell next to it fills in the expiry and turns green, amber or red by itself.
- Supervision tracker that flags who is overdue, including the manager.
- DBS re-check log that works out when each check is next due.
- Diploma clocks: the two-year Level 3 deadline, computed from each start date.
- Governance clocks: statement of purpose, policies, the monthly visit grid, all with next-due dates that compute themselves.
- The Schedule 2 staff file checklist, the employment gap worksheet, and the inspection self-audit.
The Inspection Playbook. Seven pages, plain English: the eleven things every inspection opens with, what good looks like and what fails for each, the word-for-word script for the employment gap conversation, the reference verification call script, and how to run your own mock inspection in an hour.
Opens in Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice. Along with the pack you get the occasional short note on keeping inspection ready; reply once to stop them forever.
Where to start
Twenty minutes, today:
- Open the workbook. Read the Start here tab; it takes a minute.
- Put your staff names in the matrix and copy the dates from your old sheet. Watch the Expires cells colour themselves.
- Find the first red cell. Book that course. Just that one.
One red thing fixed today beats a perfect plan next month.
I made this with a serving Responsible Individual because every home needs it and most homes are too busy to build it. It is free because it should be.
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