Nursery World - Due respect

Like Lindsay Byrne, I have also been to college for two years to study the NNEB to become a qualified nursery nurse. I have been in childcare for 17 years, working in day nurseries until I had my own children, at which point I became a registered childminder, so I could work while I looked after my own children. I consider childminding a career, and not some low form of childcare as I felt was implied. As a childminder, I am required to have yearly inspections, police checks and health checks. I believe none of this applies to nannies. I also attend a lot of training courses in my spare time to continue to learn, as I believe this is important for the children I am responsible for.

As a childminder, I am required to have yearly inspections, police checks and health checks. I believe none of this applies to nannies. I also attend a lot of training courses in my spare time to continue to learn, as I believe this is important for the children I am responsible for.

But why is it that childminders need to have so many checks and nannies do not? We both care for other people's children in a home setting. I cannot see why a nanny working in the child's home is any less capable of having a police record than a childminder working in her own home.

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