Becoming a Registered Childminder in Sheffield

Childminding can be a very rewarding career. As a childminder, you play a crucial role in a child's early development, providing a safe and nurturing environment while supporting their learning and growth. 

Registered childminders are childcare professionals who often work in their own homes providing a safe and stimulating environment for other people’s children for more than two hours a day for reward. 

Childminders are self-employed, run their own business and provide a service to the families they care for. They may offer before and after school and holiday care as well as full day care. Childminders often offer drop off and pick up services to playgroups, nurseries and schools. 

Watch Brodie’s rewarding career change to childminding 

See how Samantha built her business with the support of a childminder agency 

https://earlyyearscareers.campaign.gov.uk/working-in-childcare-and-early-years/become-a-childminder/

To be a Childminder you will need to be registered with Ofsted or a Childminder Agency 

• Become a childminder or nanny (England): Overview - GOV.UK
  
• Work as a childminder - Early Years Careers
• Childminder agencies: list of agencies - GOV.UK

• Early Years – preschool children from babies to 4 year olds.
• Wraparound – before and/or after school care for primary aged children. This includes breakfast and after-school clubs and can extend to holiday care. Funding is available visit https://www.sheffielddirectory.org.uk/wraparound-childcare. 
• Fostering – while childminders themselves are not foster carers, they can provide childcare support to foster families, including respite or regular care for foster children.
• Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) – childminders can care for children with SEND, and many are trained to provide inclusive environments.
• Respite services – childminders can offer short-term care to give parents or carers. This can include evening, weekend, or holiday cover.

• Domestic Premises - For Childminders working from their own home and caring for at least one child for more than two hours a day.
• Non-Domestic Premises - Childminders can work either part of the time or all of the time from other approved places, like community centres, church halls, schools, office buildings or outdoor areas.  

• Up to 4 people can work together to provide childcare under a Childminders registration on domestic premises
• 5 or more people can work together to provide childcare on non-domestic premises