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Della

Childminder in Tadley (also available for babysitting)

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Female Member since Apr 2010 Last Updated Oct 2025 Last Login 19 Oct 2025

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My Summary

Ofsted Registered
DBS Check
Special Needs Experience
Overnight Care
First Aid Training
Evening Babysitter
Weekend Babysitter
Newborn Experience
Full Driving Licence
Own Car
School Pickups
Childcare Qualifications
2 Year old Funded Childcare
3 and 4 Year old Funded Childcare
Hotel Babysitter
Tax-Free Childcare
Emergency Babysitter
Flexible Hours
Key Worker Childcare
9 months old Funded Childcare

About Me

I am enthusiastic, reliable person, who is highly motivated and an extremely keen practitioner with flexible enabling skills and achievements to provide care to a wide range of children. As a well-established experienced child care professional, I have operated with credibility and business expertise, working as an Ofsted registered full time child minder since 2006.

I aim to provide care in a safe and secure home meeting requirements of Ofsted ensuring the children are safeguarded. I am based in Tadley with the setting in the house to accommodate needs for business. I use the ground floor of the property to provide care for children which has a large open plan kitchen come snug area where I provide care for children, provisions for sleeping areas are available in the Lounge, hall and downstairs bedroom. The house has downstairs toileting facilities along with a large hall area for play too. Stair gates are in place on the stairs, kitchen door way, lounge door to snug area and utility area to keep the family dogs in their own safe space away from the children most of the time. I have an outdoor log cabin in the garden to use for childminding in the summer months and for messy play activities thoughout the year as required. The children are in a non-smoking homely environment within a family setting with all adults having been DBS checked.

The children have access to a fully enclosed friendly secure rear garden with a patio which will house outdoor ride on toys,playhouse, slide, mud kitchen, sandpit, and outdoor toys to play when supervised.

In the family home we have two small dogs, Poppy and Willow , who are child friendly and are generally kept in their own space away from the children due to the ages of the dogs and children and being the same height as dogs. The house is located on a side road in Tadley with road parking for parents collecting and delivering children. The location of the property gives easy access links to Basingstoke, Reading and Newbury

My Experience

I have been Childminding fully since 2006, have cared for over 40 different children in that period. Some emergency care cover to long term care for 3 families for more than 6 years per family. I have care for several twin families from age one year upwards with another child of the same age (effectively triplets) along with other before and after school care. I have provided overnight care for one family for over 8 years on occasions due to parents work commitments. Following covid 19 I regrettably had to loose all children from school settings and reduced to preschoolers only, however due to reduced services and families providing own care I suspended my business to allow for the change of house move and to set up at new house. I now deal with under fives during term time and potentially will do wrap around aschool care and do some holiday care for schoolers from September 2026. I endeavour to get out to groups in the mornings or take the children to parks, forest or walks on the common, attend the library for sing along, story time or rhyme time. forest school, messy play and soft play or farm visits. I meet with other childminders at home and outdoors, we also attend a local forest school session or forest school story walks twice a month too.

My youngest daughter is occassionally around as she finishes studies for A levels but now living between accommodation and only here weekends or when home for medical needs and hospital appointments. She loves helping with the children too and is doing health and social care course and also is a Young Leader helping with rainbows locally. She also does part time care with an old people’s care home. My eldest daughter has her daughter in care with myself full time as she works as a local nurse practitioner and can sometimes pop by however was registered as my assistant prior to this whilst at college and university so also child friendly. An all round child friendly team support me when they are around in the house and the children love engaging with play and conversation with both my daughters when in the house.

I am registered with Ofsted as a Nanny to and gained a wealth of experience during covid working for individual familes in their homes as well as working as bank staff in local nurseries in Basingstoke and Sherfield on Loddon. This experience was gained whilst I lost my entire childminding business to covid restrictions.

My Qualifications

Current Key Achievement

• Cache Level Diploma 'Level A' in Home-based Childcare
• Paediatric First Aid Qualification
• Catering Food and Hygiene Qualifications
• Safeguarding Level 3 Qualification with FGM
• Minibus Midas (Expired)
• Lone working
• Health & Safety
• Fire safety
• Food safety & Hygiene
• Medication : Support & Assist and Administration
• Keeping Children Safe
•. Prevent Duty & FGM
. Equality and Diversity course
. Basic Makaton and disability awareness trainings
. Fire Safety training
. Lone Working training

Skills

• Leadership, supervisory, organisational, team building & development and Customer
service at adult management level to child appropriate level
• Level 3 Diploma in Childcare qualification
• Working knowledge of Windows 98/XP, MS Office 2003/2010 including Excel and Word.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• School/College Qualifications 7 GCE equivalents,
• Teaching Qualifications: Swimming ASA Teacher, Judo – 2nd Dan Instructor

My Availability

Contact to check availability,

8.00am - 5.45pm Preschoolers Mon-Friday

Out of hours can be negotiated
Also registered for overnight care and babysitting too for occasional needs.
Registered Ofsted Nanny too

Contact for availability - Some availability for ADHOC holiday care in Summer Hols

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Before School no no no no no no no
Morning yes yes yes yes no no no
Afternoon yes yes yes yes no no no
After School no no no no no no no
Evening yes yes yes yes no yes yes
Overnight no no no no no no no
Last Updated: 12/10/2025

My Fees

  • Childminding from £7.20 per hour
  • Babysitting from £12.50 per hour

Please contact to discuss as rates differ for daily rates/ part time/full time whether as pre-schooler or as a childminding seeting and preschool or tailored contracts where required for term time only or holiday cover only or 9 day fortnight cover for local AWE staff.

Food - provide own for reheating or picnic lunches in summer . Drinks and snacks provided

My Local Schools

This childminder has not yet informed us whether or not they provide any drop off or pick up services at local schools.

My Ofsted Inspections

The inspection grades below have been obtained from the Ofsted website based upon the registration number the childminder has provided to us. You should verify this information yourself prior to using the childminder.

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Good
22 August 2024
Children thrive in a warm, well-organized setting that promotes exploration and learning. The childminder creates a stimulating environment with varied resources, fostering close relationships and a sense of belonging. Good communication and physical skills are developed through activities like basic sign language and outdoor walks. While overall effectiveness is good, there is room for improvement in planning adult-led activities and maintaining consistent behavior management across all age groups.
Summary generated by AI from the text of the inspection report.
8 November 2018 - Good
9 September 2015 - Good
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My Documents

This member has provided us with electronic copies of the following documents. These copies are held on file unless specified as deleted. The documents have been certified by the member as being true and accurate. We recommend you ask to see original copies of the documents before you hire them in order verify the true accuracy for yourself. Find out more about checks & references.
  • Ofsted Certificate (added 05/01/2021)
  • Childminding Agency Certificate (added 18/11/2020)
  • DBS Check (added 18/11/2020)
  • First Aid Certificate: Full Paediatric First Aid (added 12/10/2025)
  • First Aid Certificate: FA Oct 2021 (added 09/02/2023)
  • Training Certificate (added 18/11/2020)
  • First Aid Certificate: Nov 2018 (added 18/11/2020)
  • First Aid Certificate (added 18/11/2020)
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Latest reviews

Below are the latest reviews for Della. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk members and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.

Very helpful babysitter!

5 stars

Della was a fantastic last minute babysitter for our 1 year old. She was very responsive, professional and incredibly helpful. Couldn't ask for anything more!

  • 5 stars Overall

by Avatar for MKWoods MKWoods on 19/06/2021

Excellent Childminder

5 stars

Della minded my daughters for 8 years. My eldest was 4 and my youngest was 9 months old. They loved going to Della's. They became part of her family.

Della provides a safe, happy, fun environment with a variety of activities to keep little ones occupied.

The children that Della looks after are well behaved, polite and caring.

I have no hesitation in recommending Della as an amazing childminder

  • 5 stars Overall
  • 5 stars Setting
  • 5 stars Cleanliness
  • 5 stars Food
  • 5 stars Communication

by Avatar for Yvonne Yvonne on 27/12/2020

Review for Della Raven

5 stars

Della has been a childminder for both our children for 6 years and we would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a reliable childminder.

Della's care is more than we could have ever wished for. Not only does she provide a safe and caring environment, but she also teaches them a number of values that we strongly believe in. Such as punctuality, responsibility and care for others.

They have never been late to school or even been rushed out the door to get there. Consequently they see school as a great place to be and do not start the day with negativity following a panic to get there on time.

Della provides a variety of entertaining activities throughout the school holidays such as Thatcham Nature Reserve, various parks, ten pin bowling, picnics, crafts, water play to name just a few.

Della's approach to working with us has also been extremely flexible, for example she dropped our daughter at Brownies each week.

Our children have been very happy with Della and so have we.

  • 5 stars Overall

by Avatar for Parent Parent on 15/07/2012

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