Welcome to Independent Childminders - a new website written by Sarah Neville of Knutsford Childminding.

Independent Childminders will build up into a useful source of information and advice for those childminders who want to remain independently registered with Ofsted and free from agency control.

Independent Childminders will link very closely to the following websites -

Childminding Forum 

Independent Childminders

Independent Childminders on Facebook

I will be adding lots of pages to help, advise and inform independent childminders in the weeks and months to come... if you would like me to research anything for you please email me and ask.

Thank you! Sarah 

Please note - childminders keep asking me questions about agencies and how they will affect their businesses. If you want to find out about agencies then there is one company which is already saying it intends to set up a childminder agency - athomechildcare - based in Yorkshire / Nottinghamshire. You can look at their website for lots of information and answers to frequently asked questions.
I am sure they will be very pleased to answer your questions via the contact form on their website.