This week the Government unveiled more details around its highly anticipated childcare policy reforms.
I was encouraged to see that decision makers are acknowledging the vital role childminders have to play in the future of a sustainable childcare sector, but the fierce (and legitimate) debate over adult-child ratios in early years settings has eclipsed some of the wider changes put forward, namely: the renewed focused on the potential of childminding. Ironically, this is demonstrative of a long-term problem in early years: childminding is all too often overlooked and under-valued as a solution to our childcare crisis.
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