Giving out your registration number & tax credits

[lisbet]

Hi,

Another childminder told me that she no longer gives her parents her registration number until they have signed contracts, because they can claim tax credits once they've got it.

I've had a couple of parents who've expressed interest/ exchanged emails, and one of them also visited and said they did want a place, who then have not got back in touch...From our conversations/ their situations my gut instinct is that I am pretty sure they had genuine, understandable reasons for changing their minds (won't go into them to avoid identifying details) but then I am quite an optimist (or maybe gullible!) and the fact remains they could now claim tax credits if they wanted to...

So, I'm wondering if you all give your number out? And if not, how do they look at Ofsted reports? (I don't want my full address shown on mine.)

Any advice welcome