The government’s Childcare Commission is examining how to reduce the costs of childcare for working families and lessen the burdens on childcare providers.
As part of this, the commission, which is led by work and pensions minister Maria Miller and children’s minister Sarah Teather, is attempting to identify unnecessary regulation and assessing the impact of regulation on the childcare market.
But childminders fear that any change to the current regulation of their profession will have a detrimental affect upon quality.
Melanie Atkinson, chair of Hadleigh Childminding Group in Suffolk, said: “We have worked so hard to gain the professional status we have got for childminding. If we do not come under the Ofsted umbrella and are effectively deregulated, we will lose that credibility.
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