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 outcome 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
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