While the status of childminders appears to have risen in recent years, the experience of two of my constituents suggests that enlightened attitudes have not yet reached some of the major banks, who still seem to see it as nothing more than glorified babysitting.
Two registered childminders working in my constituency came to see me at my surgery because both had suffered discrimination by their banks when applying for credit. Both were turned down because the banks would not take account of their income from childminding. In one case the bank was willing to take account of weekly pay from a job in a post office one morning a week, but not the much larger sum from childminding. The implication was that childminding was not a sound basis on which to lend money.
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