Ladybirds Childminding.

19/06/2026

C H A P T E R 2️⃣

Happy birthday Eden, have the best day!
Love from me and your friends 🎉🎈🎂😘

18/06/2026

Birthday treat for Eden 🎉🎂🎈2️⃣

25/04/2026

Let that sink in…just 7 months and childminders have gone through:

*Early years foundation stage welfare requirements changes(safer eating, safeguarding every 2 years, DSL requirement, personal care requirements and more) Sept 2025

*Funding expansion Sept 2025

*Statutory nutrition guidance -Sept 2025

*Voluntary charges for consumables for funded childcare change - Jan 2026

*Ofsted Inspection Framework November 2025

*Climate action Plans-December 2025

*Ventilation and air quality guidance- Feb 2026

*Screen time guidance-March 2026

*Working together to safeguard children document update March -2026

*minimum wage update for those who employ assistants -April 2026

*Ofsted inspection cycle change- -April 2026

*Making Tax Digital - April 2026

*Wear and tear allowance removed in line with MTD -April 2026

*CAF funding ended (for those with SEND holiday care) and replaced with SACIF- April 2026

*School transition guidance -April 2026

*Safer Sleep email and then clarifying guidance a couple of weeks later -April 2026

This is a lot for any work place.
Let alone remembering that most of us work on our own.

Many of these changes are not minor.
They involve new training, updated policies, different admin systems plus reconsideration of financial sustainability and in some cases having to purchase new equipment.

And this is all around our job of actually caring for and educating young children for often over 40 hours a week, which is exhausting and comes with a huge amount of outside of hours work in itself.

Childminders are not imagining the strain.

Funded hours don’t cover our lost private time to do this work.

We can do it, but having space between updates or a good amount of notice rather than an immediate effect change with no prior discussion would go a long way!
If government departments could actually look ahead at the workload, because this is more than an update a month but also often happening all in one go…7 of the changes THIS MONTH ALONE.

We are real humans behind the work having to be at our best bright and early for little humans.

Plus funding should take into account the mandatory work being put upon us outside of contact time with children that we can’t add into our fee, Funding banning top up fees and limiting what we can charge for means we are working hundreds of unpaid hours, because none of this can be done when the children are in our care.

How we are surviving is magic in itself quite honestly, and still going above and beyond for the little ones in our care.

(Did I miss anything? I haven’t managed to even look at Scotland and Wales yet as, clearly I’ve been having to keep up on changes that affect me!)


Department for EducationUK Prime Minister

12/04/2026

12/04/2026

Had a lovely Easter with the children. Lots of outdoor play.

27/03/2026

C H A P T E R 1️⃣

Happy 1st birthday to our little bestie Jesse.

We’ve loved watching you grow these past couple of month and enjoyed making some memories with you 💙
Have a lovely day!
Love from me and your friends 🎉🎂🎈1️⃣😘

17/03/2026

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05/03/2026

Lovely week. We’ve gone to a new playgym at the beginning of the week. The children enjoyed exploring the play frame, lots of climbing, jumping into the ball pit.
We’ve been to our usual playgroups and enjoyed playing with our friends.
We’ve been reading The Three Little Pigs, talked about the colour of the pigs, the noises the pigs make. We made our own houses using the materials the pigs used in the story.
We’ve read lots of books too.

05/03/2026

Happy World Book Day 📚 🩷

11/12/2025

Me & the girls really enjoyed our day out at Lotherton Hall.