The Government's National Childcare Strategy, which has driven up the quality of childcare and increased spending in the early years sector, has had a huge impact on childminding in the past five years.
Although the overall number of childminders has fallen, innovations such as the launch of the new national daycare standards, the introduction of registration and inspection by Ofsted and the advent of specific childminding qualifications have only served to emphasise that childminders are early years professionals in their own right, offering high quality childcare. And that fact is being confirmed in the interim results of the Families, Children and Childcare Project, the largest study so far into childcare in this country, involving 1,200 families and following children from birth into school.
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