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National Union of Childminders

@childminders.bsky.social

Supporting, promoting & empowering childminders to continue to provide quality care. Campaigning for due professional respect & reward from the Department for Education and OFSTED. https://linktr.ee/national_union_of_childminders

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We must not allow @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @ofstednews.bsky.social & Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver forget this pledge.

02.06.2025 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Childminders:
Part teacher 🍎
Part cleaner 🧽
Part chef 🍝
Part therapist 🧠
Part referee 🥊
ALL legends 💪
Celebrate us now, or risk being added to The Naughty Step! 😉

@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social @ofstednews.bsky.social
#ChildmindingWeek2025 #WeSeeEverything

14.05.2025 10:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ChildmindingWeek

12.05.2025 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ChildmindingWeek2025 #ChildmindingWeek

11.05.2025 09:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#childmindingweek2025 #unsungchildcareheros #NationalUnionofChildminders #NUC #FairFunding

09.05.2025 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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2/2 We sent the attached letter of complaint to
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & Stephen Morgan and await responses. School-based nurseries are rated lower than childminders & do NOT give children the best start. We guess like schools, they will be understaffed & their staff undervalued & underpaid.

25.04.2025 11:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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1/2 The National Union of Childminders will NOT allow
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & the Department for Education to destroy the childminding sector by underfunding childminders (& private nurseries) to the point where the only option parents/carers have is sub-standard school-based nurseries.

25.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As ex-Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman is honoured, how is
@ofstednews.bsky.social misogyny, toxic masculinity & unlawful discrimination allowed to continue? Will @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social act, or would that jeopardise her own honours pathway? Here are 10 examples of Ofsted misogyny that must go.

12.04.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's the email we sent to the Secretary of State for Education - @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social & @stephenmorganmp.bsky.social this morning. It's outrageous that they and other MPs have been stating that school-based nurseries give children the 'best start to life'.

10.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We hope to see you also supporting & promoting childminders - 99% are female. 98% of childminders were rated Good or Outstanding at last inspection - the highest % of any provision type inspected by Ofsted, including school-based nurseries. Quality, flexible & local childcare.

09.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Correction: Statistically, childminders will give children 'the best start in life'! 98% of childminders were rated Good or Outstanding at last inspection - the highest % of any provision type inspected by Ofsted, including school-based nurseries.

09.04.2025 20:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IPPR warns: at current rate of decline, there will be no childminders left by 2033! 98% of childminders were rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted - the highest of any childcare setting, including school-based nurseries. So why is gov't underfunding & undermining this quality, local option? #childcare

09.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

98% of childminders were rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted - the highest of any childcare setting including school-based nurseries. So why is @teamlabouruk.bsky.social underfunding & undermining this quality, local option?

09.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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