The Department for Education has re-launched its Childcare Business Grant Scheme, which is designed to help new childminders and childminder agencies to enter the childcare market.
To be eligible, new providers must be planning to offer the 30 hours for three- and four-year-olds, or be in partnership with a childcare provider that does.
If they are a childminder agency, they must be directly encouraging and supporting the registered childminders on their books to offer the 30 hours, either themselves or working with others.
Grants are only open to childminders in England that have been registered with Ofsted on the early years register, or a childminding agency (CMA), within the last 12 months, and have started trading, or are due to start within the next six months.
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