Most childminders lack formal training

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 29 January 2004

Fewer than three in ten registered childminders in Northern Ireland have had any formal childcare training, an audit by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA) has found.

Fewer than three in ten registered childminders in Northern Ireland have had any formal childcare training, an audit by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA) has found. In the light of its findings, NICMA has called for the development of a regional training strategy specifically for childminders that was supported by appropriate funding and took into account all the barriers to training that they faced. It also called for mandatory 'Introduction to childminding'...

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