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Free Creative Steps Magazine Winter 2023 Edition
New Winter 2023 edition out now! Creative Steps is a unique quarterly magazine providing everyone caring for young children up to age 11 with dozens of fun, creative activity ideas, all designed to encourage learning through creative play. … read more
Latest Childminder News and Updates
Here are the latest additions and updates to our Childminder Guides, Childminder Paperwork and other childminder resources. … read more
Free Childcare for Mums having Smear Tests: Independent Childminders and Nannies offer Help to Save Lives
Cervical screening for cancer is at a 20-year low Over 3000 women in the UK are diagnosed with cervical cancer and nearly 1000 die due to the condition every year. … read more
Childcare in the Spring Budget 2023
The Spring Budget was announced on 15th March 2023 and in it, chancellor Jeremy Hunt placed childcare at its centre. … read more
Start your childminding or nanny career today by studying for the Preparing to work in Home-based Childcare Qualification (HBCA) CACHE Level 3
Start your childminding or nanny career today 3 months free Childcare.co.uk gold membership included in the course fee The Preparing to work in Home-based Childcare Qualification (HBCA) is a CACHE-accredited and Ofsted-recognised level 3 award that covers everything you need to become a home-based childcarer, registered childminder, childminding assistant or nanny. … read more
Childcare Discounts - Save money on everyday shopping
Introducing Childcare Discounts A new benefit for gold members to help money go that little bit further in the cost of living crisis … read more
Covid-19 Guidance for Early Years Providers
LATEST GUIDANCE • The DfE have published Additional actions for childminders during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic … read more
Childcare.co.uk writes to Minister for Children and Families
Childcare.co.uk have written to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families in England, Vicky Ford, in relation to comments she made in an exchange in the House of Commons with shadow children and early years minister Tulip Siddiq regarding a decline in the number of childcare providers since the start of 2001. We have received a number of concerns from our registered childminder community that the comments are dismissive and disrespectful, appearing to imply that childminders are less important than nursery settings. … read more
Ofsted answer your questions about the revised EYFS 2021
Your questions on the revised EYFS from September 2021 answered by Ofsted HMI's In this exclusive video interview, Sarah Neville puts Childcare.co.uk members' questions to senior Ofsted inspectors. … read more
UK's largest childcare platform allows parents to search for Covid-19 vaccinated childcare providers
Childcare.co.uk, the UK's largest childcare platform with more than 2.5 million members, now allows parents to search for childcare providers and tutors who have received a Covid-19 vaccine. … read more
