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Childcare sites for nannies etc
Agencies
The Association of Nanny Agencies
Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC)
BestBear (childcare advice & info)
Childcare qualifications
CACHE (incorp. NNEB and NAMCW)
Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
Children’s Commissioners
Children’s Commissioner for England
Children’s Commissioner for Scotland
Children’s Commissioner for Wales
Children’s Commissioner for Northern Ireland
News/information:
Children’s Plan Implementation Pack
Leading and managing Children’s Services in England: a national professional development framework
Daycare Trust: Paying for Childcare
Sure Start: Improving Quality
Standards for Early Years Professional Status (July, 2006) (pdf)
Standards: www.cwdcouncil.org.uk
National Occupational Standards in Children’s Care, Learning and Development (May 2005)
Childcare Link
Ofsted Childcare Register:
Ofsted’s information
Look After Children for a living or as a Volunteer? (pdf)
Childcare Strategy (DfES)
Ten Year Strategy for Childcare: Choice for Parents, the Best Start for Children:
www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/earlyyears/tenyearstrategy
Choice for parents, the best start for children: making it happen - An action plan for the ten year strategy: Sure Start Children’s Centres, extended schools and childcare (pdf)
National Day Care and Childminding Standards
Common Core of Skills and Knowledge for the Children’s Workforce
Vouchers and employment:
Inland Revenue: childcare
Childcare Vouchers
Employer-supported Childcare
Care Commission and other Scottish childcare information
Care Commission (Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care)
HMIE
Learning and Teaching Scotland
Children in Scotland
National Care Standards for Early Education and Childcare up to the age of 16 (2003) (pdf)
The Child at the Centre: Self Evaluation using quality indicators
A Curriculum Framework for Children 3 to 5
Welsh Childcare Strategy
Childcare is for Children (2005):
Day Nurseries
NDNA
Childcare Approval scheme
European Commission - Directorate General for Education and CultureLife Long Learning: Education and Training, Programmes and ActionsLeonardo da Vinci
Official bodies
Children’s Workforce Network (CWN)
Early Years National Training Organisation
General Social Care Council (GSCC)
National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth
National Childcare Strategy: "Meeting the Childcare Challenge" (DfES)
Ofsted: childcare
openQUALS (QCA’s searchable database of accredited qualifications)
Sure Start
A British Nanny (finding, hiring)
All Kids
Association of Nanny Agencies (ANA)
Babilog (log book for childcarers)
Babies Directory ("baby-related news, books and web resources")
Barnardo’s
BAECE (British Association for Early Childhood Education)
BTEC (Business & Technology Education Council)
CACHE (incorp. NNEB and NAMCW) (childcare qualifications)
CCP Nannies
Centre for Child Care Research
CSIE (Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education)
Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
Child Psychotherapy Trust
Childcare Directory
Childcare Matters
Childcare Professionals
Child Care Management Software
Childline
ChildrenBiz
Children Now
Chiltern College
Contact a Family (for families with disabled children)
Daycare Trust
Early Years Gateway
Early Years Net
Early Years Recruitment
Eden Childcare
eezofminders
Employers for Childcare
Every Disabled Child Matters
The Foundation Stage Website
Head Lice Advisory Bureau
Head Lice: Once a Week Take a Peek
Ideas for the Kids
JustParents
Kids’ Clubs Network
KinderStart
NannyTax.co.uk
Nannies at Notice
Nanny Search
Nanny Sharers
NAGC (The National Association for Gifted Children)
National Association for Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
National Childminding Association
National Children’s Bureau
National Day Nurseries Association
National Deaf Children’s Society
National Extension College: childcare courses
NIPPA - the early years organisation (Northern Ireland)
NSPCC
NSPCC inform (child protection issues)
Nursery Jobs Only
Nursery Nurse Forum
Nursery Nurses.co.uk (help, advice and job- related information)
Nursery Industry
Nursery World
Nyman Linden
Onelist (discussion forum for childcarers and others)
Parent Pages
Pre-School Learning Alliance
Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC): childcare & nanny agencies
School Councils UK
South East Childcare
Spare-Chair: the Web site for Teaching Assistants
Storyshapers
Threadworm information
Working with Kids
Working with Disabled Children and Young People (Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC))
Latest education/childcare news (BBC)
UK nursery/ pre-school systems explained (BBC)
