Quality First Scheme discontinued
Following a decline in the take up of a quality assurance scheme
for individual childminders a decision has been made to stop
running the Quality First scheme.
Quality First was set up by NCMA to allow
registered childminders who had no access to a childminding network
to be approved as a high quality childcare provider.
However, with the change to the legislative
framework, and emergence of more quality improvement networks, NCMA
has taken the decision to discontinue the Quality First Scheme from
December 2010.
Those registered childminders who are already
on the Quality First scheme, or who have registered to complete
their accreditation must do this before December 2010.
A childminder with Quality First approval will
still retain this status for the three year period of their
accreditation. NCMA would urge those not already on a quality
improvement network such as NCMA’s Children Come First scheme, to
find out if there is one available in their local authority
area.
Registered childminders and local authorities will be contacted
over the coming weeks with information about how to complete
accreditation on the Quality First scheme.
This page was last updated on
6/29/2010