Delegates to the National Childminding Association's annual conference and AGM in Scarborough last week passed an emergency resolution calling on the NCMA to lobby the Government to ensure that any guidance to schools developing extended provision includes a requirement to work with existing local childcare providers - particularly registered or approved home-based childcarers - so that families can choose between them.
Children's minister Margaret Hodge told the conference that childminders were vital to the Government's plans for school-age children, revealed last month.
She said, 'This offer will build on existing provision, working with primary and secondary schools, to provide parents with greater choice, flexibility and accessibility in meeting their childcare needs between 8am and 6pm, all year round. Childminders will form a crucial part of this offer.'
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