NCMA Quality First
Following a decline in the take up of a quality assurance scheme
for individual childminders a decision has been made to stop
running the Quality First scheme.
Quality First was set up by NCMA to allow
registered childminders who had no access to a childminding network
to be approved as a high quality childcare provider.
However, with the change to the legislative
framework, and emergence of more quality improvement networks, NCMA
made the decision to discontinue the Quality First Scheme from
December 2010.
A childminder with Quality First approval will
still retain this status for the three year period of their
accreditation. NCMA would urge those not already on a quality
improvement network such as NCMA’s Children Come First scheme, to
find out if there is one available in their local authority
area.