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Childminder Development Grants
Are YOU eligible to apply?
Criteria for Childminders
A childminder must fulfil the following criteria in order to receive the Childminders Development Grant:
- Provide or propose to provide a childminding
service for at least one child on a full-time
basis and one child on a part-time basis OR
for three children on a part-time basis in the childminder's home
- Have completed a Quality Awareness
Programme or equivalent
- Have notified the South Western Area
Health Board of your service
- Provide evidence of appropriate insurance
- Intend to operate as a childminder service for a minimum of two years following receipt
of the grant
- Must not be the recipient of any other
funding under the Equal Opportunities
Childcare Programme to date
- The grant may be used for the purchase of
capital items to enhance safety/quality in the
service, sample list attached. No purchase should be made until grant approval has been received.