Last September, the childcare charity urged children’s centres to do more to involve childminders after a survey revealed just 15 per cent invited childminders to meetings with centre staff.
NCMA has now launched an engagement tool that highlights ways in which children’s centres can best engage with registered childminders to provide childcare services.
Sue Coates, spokeswoman for NCMA, said: "We wanted to develop a tool to support all children’s centres, from those that are still at the planning stages of involving childminders to those already working jointly with childminders to support families locally.
"Collaborative partnerships between registered childminders and children’s centres have a positive outcome for all involved, including the children."
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