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Childminder Agencies

Sarah Read Early Years Manager, Action for Children

Agenda

• 10am

Arrival

• 10.30am

Welcome and introductions

• 10.45am

Childminder Agencies – background and update

• 11.30am

Tea/coffee and networking

• 11.45am

Support available

• 12.00pm

Childminder Agency toolkit

• 12.15pm

Statement of purpose

• 1.00pm

Lunch

• 1.45pm

Ofsted – The registration process

• 2.15pm

Case study – Leap Ahead Childminder Agency

• 2.45pm

Final Q and A

What is a Childminder Agency?

• Introduced by the Department for

Education in 2013, childminder agencies are organisations that register childminders and provide them with training, advice, administrative support and marketing to families.

Benefits for prospective childminders

• Registration support
• Initial training – EYFS, First Aid,

Safeguarding

• Checks completed – DBS, health

check, etc.

• Pre-registration home visits
• Support with paperwork

Benefits for all childminders

• Ongoing support by email and

phone

• Regular monitoring and support

visits

• Training and CPD
• Networking opportunities
• Support with paperwork

How it works

• Registration is completed

through the agency rather than Ofsted

• A package of ongoing support

will be in place

• Agency fees

Inspecting Childminder Agencies

• inspection handbook published summer 2016

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ofsted

• inspections-of-childminder-agencies
• Inspection judgements
• the effectiveness of the leadership and

management of the childminder agency

• the quality of the agency’s services
• the impact of the agency’s services on the quality of

theeducation and care provided by its childminders.

Childminder Agencies

• DfE led trial
• Continued support following the trial (light touch)
• 8 agencies registered:

St Bede Childminder Agency The Northumberland Church of England Academy Trio Childcare Connections Ltd Daryel Care Leap Ahead – Achieving for Children City Childcare Childminding Agency Rutland Early Years Agency Limited @Home Childcare

Moving forward

• More organisations going through the registration

process

• 30 hours – childminders vital to this agenda

Tea/coffee break

Support Available

• Action for Children are continuing to

support CMAs through the strategic partnership with the DfE

• Information events
• Bespoke visits
• Telephone and email support
• Toolkit

Support Available

• Supporting new organisations to become

ready to register with Ofsted

• Supporting existing CMAs:
• Forum
• Regular meetings
• Marketing toolkit

Support Available

• In small groups discuss the type of support

you think would be required to set up as a Childminder Agency.

Toolkit

Childminder Agency Toolkit

Contact Us

Contact Us: E: CMA@4children.org.uk D: 07734 165642 W: FoundationYears.org.uk/child-minders

Statement of Purpose

• The aims and objectives of the CMA
• The organisational structure of the CMA
• The CMA’s arrangements for registering

providers

• The CMA’s arrangements for training and

monitoring providers

• The CMA’s arrangements for ensuring

provision is of a sufficient standard

Statement of Purpose

• The CMA’s arrangements for communicating the
• utcome of QA visits to parents
• The CMA’s procedures for safeguarding
• The CMA’s arrangements for disseminating information

about childcare provision

• The CMA’s procedures for taking enforcement action in

relation to a registered provider

• The CMA’s procedure for dealing with complaints
• Alternative arrangements for when one of it’s registered

providers is unable to provide childcare

• Additional services or facilities offered

Lunch

Ofsted - The registration process

Case Study – Leap Ahead Childminder Agency

Journey

• Consultation
• Planning
• Registration visit
• Operational
• Recruitment

Challenges

• Being the first
• Devising the processes, external

and internal

• Designing the quality assessment

tool and paperwork

• Sustainability

Our first childminders

Successes

• Recruitment
• Website http://leapahead.org.uk/
• Training for childminders
• Launch event

Full Membership

Pay As You Go

Final Q and A

Foundation Years