Childminders in England have voted to change their name. But they do not know what they want to change it to.
The ballot, which was carried with a postal vote in favour of a name change, followed a motion tabled at the National Childminding Association's (NCMA) annual conference in Torquay on 15 and 16 November. It said, 'It is proposed that this AGM instructs the National Executive Committee to lobby government to change the word "childminder" in legislation to a word or words that more accurately reflect the professional service that we provide.'
However, the delegates voted down replacement names such as 'professional childcare practitioner' and 'approved home childcarer'. An emergency resolution followed that saw the delegates agree to further consultation over the coming year through the NCMA's in-house magazine Who Minds? and for the name change to be debated again at next year's AGM in Scarborough.
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