Yolanda was an absolutely fabulous childminder for our little one. He started with her at 10 months old and she was the first person we had left our baby with apart from family.

Her childminder setting in her own home is really well set up for little ones. Everything she does with the children is focussed on development and learning and we found our baby came on so much even in a few weeks and months with her including increasing his gestures and words that he started to use. He loved being with Yolanda and the other children and he could really learn from them. She also makes sure she does enriching activities with the children each day, including outside time and sensory play. She clearly has a huge amount of experience with early years development and education, and follows safe sleep guidelines meticulously.

Yolanda took the time to really help him to settle in at the beginning and he absolutely loved going there each day. She was great at communicating with us, providing us with photo updates throughout the day which helped us to feel connected to them. Our baby absolutely loved her food and he got to try lots of new nutritious foods - he ate better than we do!

Yolanda is such a kind, caring and professional presence - we had complete peace of mind when we left our baby with her each day and we cannot recommend her highly enough. We are only sad that we can't continue with her as we are relocating overseas!

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