The ratio number your rota can't see

Ask most crèches how their ratios look on a given afternoon and they'll show you a rota. It says who's rostered, which room, which hours. What it can't tell you is who tapped out for a break twenty minutes ago, who's covering relief in a different room right now, or whether the toddler room actually had three staff at 2:40pm or just planned to.

That gap — between the rota and the room — is where most Regulation 11 non-compliance actually lives. Not a staffing shortage on paper, but a shortfall nobody's tracking in real time.

Bloomffy doesn't compute ratio from the rota. Staff tap themselves into and out of a room as they physically enter and leave it; 'checked out' means on break, not off the clock. The youngest child present drives the required ratio band, and the number recalculates on every tap, not once a morning.

When a breach happens — someone taps out and the room drops below its required ratio — Bloomffy doesn't block anything. It alerts, opens a tracked event with a short relief window, and waits for resolution. And when that resolution happens, it's logged too: who tapped back in, and when. Never silently cleared.

A rota that always looks compliant on paper isn't evidence of anything. A timestamped detect-and-correct history is. That's the actual sales argument, and it's also just what an honest compliance record looks like.