Working with childminders
Your
children's centre can provide valuable support to local
childminders and help their businesses, as well as your community,
thrive.
By supporting local childminders you can help to ensure
continued childcare provision in your community, giving parents in
your area increased parental choice.
Centres across England and Wales already offer local
childminders a range of services and your local centre may
offer any or all of the following:
- a toy library service
- a vacancy-matching service, which will also support parents
visiting your centre and give them increased choice of
childcare
- the use of centre facilities, such as a rooms for a childminder
drop-in session or photocopying facilities for a childminding
newsletter
- training, especially if it is tailored to the needs of
childminders, but also offering childminders places at
training on offer through your centre
- a childminder representative at centre staff meetings. The more
local childminders know about your centre, the more they can
promote its services to parents.
Find out why
childminders are the ideal childcare choice for parents with NCMA's
short film, Home from Home.