NCMA's manifesto launch
An audience of childminders and their children, parents, MPs,
peers, DCSF and Ofsted officials and other representatives from the
childcare sector attended the launch of NCMA's Manifesto for home-based
childcare at the House of Commons on 18th March.
They heard speeches from Conservative Spokesperson for the
Family, Maria Miller MP, and Baroness Walmsley, Liberal Democrat
Spokesperson for Children, Schools and Families as well as NCMA's
Chair Susanna Dawson and President Gillian Pugh.
The sun shone on the day and the
event was a great success.
NCMA is encouraging childminder
and nanny members in
England and Wales to send the manifesto, called Childcare
Choices for Children and Families, to
the parliamentary
candidates standing in their constituencies and ask them to sign up
to four key principles:
- to improve access and parental
choice
- to invest in quality
- to support parents with the cost of
childcare
- improve recognition of the role and
status of home-based childcare.
You can help the messages reach all
the political parties and the parliamentary candidates who are
hoping for your vote. Details of the manifesto and how you can get
involved feature in the latest Who Minds? on the
manifesto pages
here.