Discover the benefits of transferring to our community if you are registered with Ofsted or another agency
Bespoke Personal Support | Exceptional Value for Money | Comprehensive Service
What's different about @Home Childcare?
@Home Childcare is not like other Ofsted childminder agencies. We are an award-winning agency who provides unrivalled quality improvement support, helping educators to provide the best care and early learning for the children. As a social enterprise, our focus is on empowering people to have successful, profitable home-based businesses.
We may not be the largest agency, but we are certainly the right choice for the right people who are interested in growing through quality! And, we are always on the lookout for educators with shared values who wish to transfer from Ofsted or other agencies to join us!
To get more information about how to transfer your registration to @Home Childcare, click the Get in Touch button below.
Join our community to receive the following benefits, for example:
- A personal mentor who provides specialist early years support to help you continually improve your practice
- Regular CPD training, delivered in the classroom (which are live streamed if you live further away) and live webinars e.g. EYFS/child development and business topics
- Consistent and transparent annual inspections which ensure you are constantly striving for improvement, which in turn, helps to achieve quality outcomes for children
- A minimum of two visits per annum: one quality improvement visit and one inspection, providing professional EYFS guidance
- A profile webpage for online advertising of your vacancies to parents
- Email & telephone support
- Online networking via a termly meetup group
- On-going regulation including safeguarding support with concerns and disclosures
- Information and legislation updates and how it applies in your setting
- Online networking via a termly meetup group
For established educators who are ready to expand their business, we can help by:
- Recruiting suitable assistants for you to offer more childcare places
- Providing funded Level 2 and 3 apprenticeship training for assistants
- Providing business development support such as advice about registering your setting as Childcare on Domestic Premises
- Potentially providing career progression for successful educators who would like to work in our agency
Our 2023 Ofsted report acknowledges the different ways we invest and add value to established educators:
“Support is easily accessible, valued and helps drive improvement. Educators speak very highly of agency staff, who they say go ‘over and above’ and are available when needed. “
Greater peace of mind for parents
We are often asked the question: how do parents react to childminders who are registered by an Ofsted agency, rather than directly by Ofsted?
In our experience, parents readily embrace the ethos of our community because they obtain greater peace of mind knowing their educator is regularly inspected, monitored and supported to provide high quality childcare.
Parents appreciate that they can easily contact your personal mentor if they have questions or issues, rather than contacting Ofsted’s call centre. They are reassured knowing their childcare provider has regular support and monitoring, including unannounced visits, if there are any serious concerns.
How much does it cost?
We charge £175* for the registration process for existing educators wishing to transfer from Ofsted or another agency. It includes:
- Support and admin for the registration process e.g suitability checks
- An online induction meeting to go through our policies/procedures, and to get an initial feel of your house
- A health & safety registration visit in your home setting
- Access to our members’ toolkit containing policies, procedures, resources etc
Once registered, the on-going flat rate monthly fee is £100 for the inclusive service.
We can generally registered existing childminders in 4 – 6 weeks, depending on your suitability checks.
*Non-refundable
Want to find out what our registered members have to say about the service?
Listen to what some of our educators, some who have been registered with us for more than 7 years now. The overhwhelming majority of our members are independent, self-employed individuals who have been rated Good and Outstanding.
We are in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Sheffield, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Hull & Humber, Birmingham, Bristol. East & North London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Greater Manchester.
