Some childminders claim they are being unfairly discriminated against because they are unable to benefit from the greater funding that nurseries receive, due to their higher staff-to-child ratios, when providing funded placements for two-year-olds.
Janet Glew, a childminder from Shropshire, said childminders should be recompensed because they operate at a ratio of 1:3 across the whole age range, not just for two-year-olds, and unlike nurseries cannot access eight lots of funding for threeand four-year-olds. Ms Glew was responding to Sarah Teather's column in Nursery World, in which the minister said that the higher rate of funding that nurseries receive for two-year-olds reflected the higher ratio requirements for this age group.
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