MissTinkerbell
28-05-2010, 01:24 PM
Finally we are getting somewhere on getting a childminder support/drop-in sorted out - its only taken a year!!! Our village is having a Children's Centre and building work starts on June 7th with an opening scheduled for the start of the new school year.
We had a meeting with the manager on Thursday and she is extremely keen to support us in holding a drop-in and advertising our vacancies, etc.
What I wanted to ask was for those of you who run/attend childminder support groups or drop-ins how do you organise them?
Our childcare advisor has already said that she is willing to attend a session once a month to provide a link to our local early years team and a source of advice.
The Children's Centre manager also suggested that we perhaps have a monthly theme and build on that. Now I know I come from an Early Years teaching backgtround and have loads of ideas but I also don't want to feel as though I'm taking over nor feel that I'm doing it all IYSWIM.
Any advice/ideas or suggestions would be gratefully received.
I so want this to be successful group and one that provides a really good source of advice and support for the many childminders in the viallage and a chance to provide the opportunity for our mindess to experience some outings/visits/events that they probably wouldn't get otherwise.
Thankyou
We had a meeting with the manager on Thursday and she is extremely keen to support us in holding a drop-in and advertising our vacancies, etc.
What I wanted to ask was for those of you who run/attend childminder support groups or drop-ins how do you organise them?
Our childcare advisor has already said that she is willing to attend a session once a month to provide a link to our local early years team and a source of advice.
The Children's Centre manager also suggested that we perhaps have a monthly theme and build on that. Now I know I come from an Early Years teaching backgtround and have loads of ideas but I also don't want to feel as though I'm taking over nor feel that I'm doing it all IYSWIM.
Any advice/ideas or suggestions would be gratefully received.
I so want this to be successful group and one that provides a really good source of advice and support for the many childminders in the viallage and a chance to provide the opportunity for our mindess to experience some outings/visits/events that they probably wouldn't get otherwise.
Thankyou