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27-02-2012, 02:41 PM
Asked my local ncma rep ages ago about the NCMA Quality standards as they are supposed to be renewed every 3 years, my time was up this month and as I changed my insurance to Morton MichelI wanted to know whether or not I still needed to be a member.
ANyway when I contacted My local DO she told me that she was being made redundant and to speak to my local FIS reguarding this....anyway so we find out today that the ncma quality standards are being taken over by caerphilly council and will be the caerphilly quality assurance scheme.
Sounds :eek: but she said basically us childminders have never been looked after properly and are being taken over by the caerphilly council. basically this means that we will be invited to take part of courses that were only given to network minders so isntead of the bog standard child protection course we are invited to go ont he advanced courses...if there are any other courses we want to go on then we can request and should there be enough cms they will open up a course for us.
There will be opportunities for childminder coffee mornings to discuss anythign we want / need ie courses help in anyway to discuss as a group of childminders rather being left to our own devices...
They have lots of good funding for this and I for one I'm really happy. I have shown in previous posts about not happy with NCMA and personally thinking ti is a pointless membership and for once I am proved right. The FIS usually do this for nursery and schools so they are also lookign forward to looking after childminders and our needs, something that we were lacking previously. They have given us a ticklist but it is a general childcare one but they are rewording the childminders one but not due out until end of year as they are still rewriting it so at the moment we will be done under the nursery way for now.....as long as we meet certain criterias will then be awarded the title of Quality Assured childminders...basically similar to the network without being shunned into thinking we are crap minders if we are not network minders!! :angry:
Obviosuly there is a lot more to it but I couldnt take it all in :p
Anyway so thats good news this side, any other welsh ones heard of things changing locally?
N.B obviously this is my own experience with NCMA and not a global thinga and don't want to diss the work they do for others.
ANyway when I contacted My local DO she told me that she was being made redundant and to speak to my local FIS reguarding this....anyway so we find out today that the ncma quality standards are being taken over by caerphilly council and will be the caerphilly quality assurance scheme.
Sounds :eek: but she said basically us childminders have never been looked after properly and are being taken over by the caerphilly council. basically this means that we will be invited to take part of courses that were only given to network minders so isntead of the bog standard child protection course we are invited to go ont he advanced courses...if there are any other courses we want to go on then we can request and should there be enough cms they will open up a course for us.
There will be opportunities for childminder coffee mornings to discuss anythign we want / need ie courses help in anyway to discuss as a group of childminders rather being left to our own devices...
They have lots of good funding for this and I for one I'm really happy. I have shown in previous posts about not happy with NCMA and personally thinking ti is a pointless membership and for once I am proved right. The FIS usually do this for nursery and schools so they are also lookign forward to looking after childminders and our needs, something that we were lacking previously. They have given us a ticklist but it is a general childcare one but they are rewording the childminders one but not due out until end of year as they are still rewriting it so at the moment we will be done under the nursery way for now.....as long as we meet certain criterias will then be awarded the title of Quality Assured childminders...basically similar to the network without being shunned into thinking we are crap minders if we are not network minders!! :angry:
Obviosuly there is a lot more to it but I couldnt take it all in :p
Anyway so thats good news this side, any other welsh ones heard of things changing locally?
N.B obviously this is my own experience with NCMA and not a global thinga and don't want to diss the work they do for others.