Signing your child's healthcare plan
Read the plan your childminder has written for your child's medical condition, check you agree, and sign it.
Who this is for
Who this is forParents whose child has a medical condition — asthma, an allergy, epilepsy, diabetes or anything else their childminder needs a plan for. Reading and signing takes a couple of minutes.
A healthcare plan is the written agreement between you and your childminder about your child's conditions: what each one is, what medication goes with it, and exactly what your childminder will do in an emergency. Nothing happens until you have both signed it, so it is worth reading properly rather than signing on the doorstep.
1. Open the plan
Tap the menu, then Healthcare Plan. If you have more than one child with the setting, tap your child's name along the top.
When your childminder is waiting on you, the plan says so at the top of the screen.
2. Read what your childminder has written
Each condition has its own coloured block: what it is, what triggers it, the signs to watch for, and the medication for it. A medicine that covers more than one condition, such as Calpol, shows under each. Below the conditions are the contacts and anything else that applies to the whole plan.
In every condition, Emergency steps matters more than the rest: the point at which this stops being an ordinary bad day, and what your childminder will do, in order, including when to call 999.
Read each one as though you were the one following it. If anything is wrong, missing, or does not match what your GP or consultant has told you, do not sign it. Speak to your childminder and they will send you an updated version.
3. Sign it
Tap Sign and activate and sign with your finger.
That is both signatures, so the plan is now active. Your childminder can see it on their dashboard, and so can anyone caring for your child alongside them.
Signing in person
If you would rather sign in person, your childminder can hand you their phone at drop-off or pick-up and you can sign there instead. It counts exactly the same, and the plan records that you signed in person.
4. When something changes
A signed plan cannot be quietly edited. If your child's needs change — a new inhaler, a different dose, a condition that has settled — either of you can start a new version, and you both sign again.
Until you do, the plan you already signed stays in force, so your child is never left without one while a change is being agreed. You can see every version, and who signed it and when, in the plan's history.
✅Why KinderStart does it this way
Asking both of you to sign means nobody has to remember what was agreed verbally, months later. The date, the wording and both signatures are kept, so you know your childminder is working to the plan you actually agreed — and they can show an inspector the same thing.
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