The Out of School and Childminding Team run by the council will be scrapped by the end of March. In its place the council is proposing a system whereby childminders are allocated early years advisers based in their local area.
But the Croydon Childminding Association (CCMA) has criticised the move, saying the gaps left by the dedicated service could be deeply damaging for childminders.
Lucy Giffin, chair of the association, said all members of the childminding team have been childminders at some point and have a wealth of experience that will be lost.
"The Out of School and Childminding Team are that top tier of management that we do need as childminders," she said. "It was a bigger team last year and has already been reduced to four people and now those four people, who have been responsible for 500 childminders across the borough, are being made redundant.
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