Local authorities are now expected to adhere to new statutory guidance from the Department for Education, which came into force last month, and which states that there is no requirement for childminders to be part of a network or qualified to Level 3 to access the funding.
The issue was raised by delegates at 4Children’s ‘Let’s talk quality!’ conference in London.
Elizabeth Shack from the London Borough of Brent said she was ‘very supportive’ of childminders getting the nursery education funding but, ‘With the current proposal they don’t necessarily have to have a Level 3 and that concerns me, because a child going into childcare in a non-domestic setting, there would be a Level 3 present.
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