Guest Posted May 25, 2012 Posted May 25, 2012 Hello Everyone This is REALLY important - can you sign - whether you are a childminder, nanny, childcare worker of any description, a user of childcare.... this petition is try to stop the proposed deregulation of childminders. We minders have worked too long and too hard to have our professionalism taken away Our businesses will suffer because clients would no longer be able to claim tax credits or vouchers to pay us Do you REALLY want to be inspected by some 'network agency' that will impose their own rules and regulations upon us, most likely by people who haven't got the first idea about minders, way more paperwork Please sign this - please forward to clients, colleagues, plaster over facebook etc http://www.change.org/petitions/uk-government-reject-proposals-to-deregulate-childminders#share If you want to find out more go to www.childmindingforum.co.uk Can you afford NOT to support this?
Guest jane707 Posted May 25, 2012 Posted May 25, 2012 I have signed... and I am asking all my friends to sign it too
HoneyPancakes Posted May 25, 2012 Posted May 25, 2012 I have signed the petition but with reservations. If our local Network Coordinators became our agency I wouldn't have any trouble at all respecting their regulation. Maybe there are Local Authorities with less effective Childminding Networks, but ours is strong and supportive and in a great position to regulate and co-ordinate childcare places. Honey
Guest Posted May 26, 2012 Posted May 26, 2012 I have signed the petition but with reservations. If our local Network Coordinators became our agency I wouldn't have any trouble at all respecting their regulation. Maybe there are Local Authorities with less effective Childminding Networks, but ours is strong and supportive and in a great position to regulate and co-ordinate childcare places. Honey Honey, our Network is also strong but there are childminders within the area who aren't and the grading is given overall to the Network....... I work too hard to lose my 2 Outstandings - I stand or fall by my own practice and the hours of CPD I have chosen to undertake. Nona
HoneyPancakes Posted May 26, 2012 Posted May 26, 2012 Good point Nona. I really don't know what to think. It all seemed to pop up so suddenly. The first I heard of it was Tuesday night and it took me until Thursday to find and read the report. I want to hear more views - pros and cons. The report seems quite well thought through while the pleas for rejecting it don't seem to be giving much in the way of evidence, so I can't really make a proper judgement. Rebuttals like yours give some information to work on. What else you you know? Honey
Guest Posted May 27, 2012 Posted May 27, 2012 Honey, I signed up to many of the news alert systems,when I did my FD and continue to get the daily bulletins. Have a read of these for more thoughts and views on the proposed changes..... http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/1073318/mp-calls-urgent-overhaul-childcare-regulation http://www.cypnow.co.uk/cyp/news/1073300/survey-strong-opposition-childminder-regulation-changes http://www.daycaretrust.org.uk/pages/deregulating-childminders-will-not-solve-the-uks-childcare-crisis-daycare-trust-responds-to-elizabet http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childminders_nannies_au_pairs_etc/a1476988-Proposed-deregulation-of-childminders http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/News/MostRead/1132835/MP-demands-childcare-overhaul-deliver-affordable-places/ Nona
suebear Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 Thanks for sharing the links, am reading with interest xxx
Steve Posted June 6, 2012 Posted June 6, 2012 Here's an article in today's Guardian about the proposed de-regulation of childminders. 1
neisha Posted June 15, 2012 Posted June 15, 2012 We recently wrote to our local MP Crispin Blunt on the issue. This is the letter. http://www.crispin.co.uk/june-2012/should-childminders-in-the-uk-be-deregulated He replied quite promptly http://www.crispin.co.uk/june-2012/deregulation-of-childminders-crispin-blunts-reply Though I think he rather missed the point. Venetia
suebear Posted June 19, 2012 Posted June 19, 2012 Did you see the reply on the DFE page on here? A little vague and didn't actually answer the questions
Guest jane707 Posted June 26, 2012 Posted June 26, 2012 A lot of MPs are now getting the message that many thousands childminders do not want to be deregulated and pay money to an agency which will do the jobs we are currently managing by ourselves... However the subject still needs pushing so please ask any childminders and parents you know to sign the petition Pipsqueak mentions in her post :1b
Guest lucyevans Posted September 13, 2012 Posted September 13, 2012 Article on the Independent Newspaper website http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/a-threat-to-child-welfare-so-why-isnt-the-government-listening-8130604.html Please sign the petition if you've not already done so. Lucy
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