The Independent Childminders Social Enterprise (ICM-SE) will offer membership, training and insurance to childminders from 21 March.
Co-founder and director Stuart Turner told Nursery World that the new trade association had been set up in response to a call from childminders concerned about changes in the sector and that he had been approached to set up the independent body.
The association's other founder and co-director is childminder Bea Heath.
The ICM-SE will lobby Government on behalf of independent childminders and help to ensure their businesses remain sustainable, as well as offering support, mentoring, information and advice in partnership with other stakeholders.
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