Nursery World - At home with childminders

By Janice Tomlin, a registered childminder from Penge, London In the feature about home carers, 'Minder or nanny?' (Professional Nanny, 26 February), I was disappointed to see Tricia Pritchard of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses say it was 'like asking a clinically trained nurse to register as an auxiliary'. By this, she implied that she thinks nannies are far superior to childminders.

In the feature about home carers, 'Minder or nanny?' (Professional Nanny, 26 February), I was disappointed to see Tricia Pritchard of the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses say it was 'like asking a clinically trained nurse to register as an auxiliary'. By this, she implied that she thinks nannies are far superior to childminders.

What a totally unprofessional comment. We are all, childminders and nannies alike, trying to earn our living looking after other people's children and we all suffer from comments that don't value our skills. PANN should not downgrade childminders with such disparaging comments.

Nannies tend not to have their own homes and work in their employer's homes, while childminders tend to have children and their own homes, from where they usually work.

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