The new framework comes as a renewed push starts by ministers and the inspectorate towards getting more childminders to sign up with childminder agencies.
Currently eight childminder agencies have been registered by Ofsted, but it is understood that there will be further drive towards their expansion this year, ahead of the 30-hour childcare offer.
The guidance sets out what inspectors need to do to prepare for inspecting childminding agencies.
A childminder agency will be inspected six to nine months after it registers its first childminder.
The guidance - draft handbook for inspectors published by Ofsted yesterday - includes the evaluation schedule on judging the effectiveness of the agency and the main types of evidence inspectors will collect and analyse.
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