The London Assembly found that while significant steps had been made, there were 'shortcomings' in the London Development Agency's (LDA) programme.
Committee chair Dee Doocey said that although there had been improvements, childcare provision in the capital was 'woefully inadequate' in terms of affordability and accessibility. There were also problems with insufficient training for childcare workers.
She acknowledged that the Childcare Affordability Programme had delivered 8,000 more places, but said it had 'fallen down on provision for disabled children' and not enough had been done to address their specialist childcare needs.
The report also said that the LDA was placing too much emphasis on centre-based care rather than flexible and home-based care.
Ms Doocey told Nursery World, 'If nurseries can apply for funding, there should be no reason why childminders cannot do the same.'
Denise Burke, senior childcare manager at the LDA, said that childminders were not excluded from the affordability programme, but they must be part of a network attached to a nursery in order to qualify for funding. The pilot as it had been set up could not fund individual childminders, she said.
'This is a three-year pilot and if the pilot gets extended, we could look at administering it in a different way,' she added.
According to the National Childminding Association, there are 9,400 registered childminders in London and just over 7,000 are NCMA members.
NCMA chief executive Liz Bayram said, 'We look forward to working with the team at LDA to work out the logistics of childminders accessing the CAP through local authorities. Not only will childminders benefit from this new development, but parents using registered childminders will benefit too.'
