Useful Links: Childcare

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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)

 

 
Government

 

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

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

 

Childcare Approval Scheme (nannies)

 

 
European education and training

 

European Commission - Directorate General for Education and Culture
Life Long Learning: Education and Training, Programmes and Actions
Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

Official bodies

 

Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC)

 

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

 

 
Childcare/Children sites

 

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

BestBear (childcare advice & info)

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

Childcare Vouchers

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

Sure Start

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)