Childminder membership

Our membership programme offers childminders the opportunity to access a range of essential, cost-effective support designed to meet the changing needs of the sector.

It will support childminders in continuing to provide the highest quality care for children and meet the needs of parents and families effectively and support a positive outcome at inspection.

Our charged for membership provides a great value offer, allowing you to access all kinds of essential support, updates, visits, new materials and resources.

We have listened to what you have told us would be most useful in supporting you to make an even bigger difference to the children in your care.  As such we have amended our membership package.  

You will get all of the following benefits including those in the **universal service:

  • Unlimited support from your Early Education Improvement Partner via telephone, email or video calls
  • Quality improvement support visits
  • Weekly bulletin
  • NEW access to our series of four virtual workshops to support the development of practice across the year
  • NEW access to a set of core recorded training for your setting to access each term.
  • NEW access to safeguarding training for your DSL delivered virtually from September
  • Safeguarding support and advice from our Early Years Safeguarding Officer
  • Live virtual termly update webinar
  • Termly cluster meetings with CPD training alongside fellow childminders
  • NEW Access to a set core publication to download each term.
  • Free subscription to the termly 'Spotlight on Early Years' e-magazine for on going professional development
  • Access to the 'Early Years Membership' channel via Microsoft Teams
  • Your own copy of the Childminder Portfolio developed by the Early Years Quality Improvement Team
  • Reduced 'members' prices for webinars, Instant Access and training courses
  • Electronic samples of the mandatory policies and procedure
  • Environment visits to the Early Years Professional Development Centre to inspire your practice and take home key messages (booking required)

*New childminders will get an extra visit in their first year to help them develop and embed their childminding practice

Membership Plus

For childminders who co-mind or work with assistants we can offer a Membership Plus to cover your whole setting costing just £88 per annum.

Membership Plus has been introduced to help make membership affordable to those childminders who work with an assistant or co-mind (at the same address), without duplicating resources. Membership Plus offers the same discounts on training and resources to both you and your assistant(s)/co-minder(s), however one portfolio will be shared, as this is intended for the whole setting.

**Universal service

All registered childminders in Lancashire will have access to a universal service as detailed below:

  • Quality improvement support visit
  • Weekly bulletin
  • Safeguarding support and advice from our Early Years Safeguarding Officer

Universal service:  Available to all childminders in Lancashire at no cost

Childminder membership:  £66 per year (or payable at £16.50 per quarter)

Membership Plus:  £88 per year (or payable at £22 per quarter)

To become a member please click and complete:  Membership Application form

Email the team to request more information earlyyearscentre@lancashire.gov.uk