Responding to a poll on the to the government’s plan to “encourage the growth of childminder agencies”, 79 per cent of Ofsted-registered childminders said that they were either “somewhat” or “very” unlikely to join such an agency in the future.
A total of 77 per cent of Ofsted-registered childminders who responded to the Early Years Alliance’s (EYA) survey of more than 1,600 childminders, warned that they would leave the profession if it became compulsory to join an agency, with 64 per cent stating that they would leave the sector entirely.
The early years sector has seen a sustained fall in childminders in recent years, with more than 20,000 childminders leaving the sector since 2014.
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