I was horrified to think that any manner of person would so easily be able to discover the exact location of children cared for by childminders in their area. I am sure that the parents of the children we care for would not be happy for this to happen either.
I was pleased, therefore, when Ofsted bowed to pressure and commissioned MORI to send out a questionnaire to all childminders last month that set out three suggested proposals on how our addresses and reports could be printed on its website - full name and address, Unique Reference Number (URN) and part of the postcode, or URN only (News, 11 September). However, I was disappointed to find that space was not made available for childminders to make our own suggestions.
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