Childminders should value the individuality of all children in their care and all children should be given the opportunity to achieve to their full potential. Children should be given the same love and care regardless of their ethnicity, attainment, age, disability, gender or family background.

Ideally childminders will produce their own inclusion policy which will detail how they aim to offer an inclusive setting. Sample policies can be found on the Childminding Resources page.

Many childminders are ideally placed to offer a child care for children with disabilities. By the very nature of childminding, childminders only look after a few children at any one time, allowing them to offer individual care and allowing them to work in close partnership with parents. They can often be flexible in their care to suit the individual families’ needs and they can often care for siblings.

Trio Childminding Development Workers (CDWs) are available to give advice and support to their network childminders on issues concerning inclusion and the CDWs also have access to support from Trio’s Inclusion Support Workers when necessary. Trio Childminders will have access to the “Trio SEN Code of Practice for Childminders 2009”.

in the grey panel to the right you will find ‘A Guide to Inclusive Practice’. Or for further information that is vital for you to fully offer an inclusive practice, please click here.