Northamptonshire Childminding Association (NCA) was approached by the Department for Education to see if any of its childminders would be interested in meeting Ms Truss to discuss proposals for childminder agencies.
Plans to introduce agencies were set out earlier this month in the Children and Families Bill.
The invitation for childminders put up on the NCA forum said, 'They have had plenty of negative feedback from the sounds of it so would like to hear from childminders who are broadly in favour or at least open-minded about moving to an agency model.'
Many childminders took to the thread in protest and NCA posted a clarification to state that the association does not support childminder agencies.
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