The NCMA's Individual Inspection Matters campaign has been launched in response to concerns that the Government is planning to take childminders out of the current inspection and regulation system.
In March, Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw told MPs at the education select committee that regulating and inspecting childminders was too costly and said that he was in discussions with education secretary Michael Gove about how to make the inspection system more efficient, more effective, and provide greater value for money.
As Nursery World revealed in March, Ofsted spends six times as much on regulating and inspecting a childcare place with a childminder than it does on group settings.
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