Kim's Kiddiecare Early Years, Pre-School, & Childcare

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𝚆𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚊𝚍𝚍𝚢'𝚜, 𝙳𝚊𝚍'𝚜, 𝙶𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚍'𝚜, 𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚕𝚎'𝚜, & 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚍𝚊𝚢 ♡

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🍓 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 🍓

Strawberry Picking with our Mini 2’s and Pre-School Krew 🍓

Such a lovely, yummy time!

🌈 𝚁𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚠 𝚂𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚢 🌈

A lovely morning of sensory play for Kim’s Mini Krew 💖

Baby sensory activities help to stimulate touch, sight, sound, & smell, and is crucial for early childhood development. Safe Baby Sensory Activities helps build vital brain connections, accelerates cognitive and physical growth, and supports emotional regulation.
Providing Safe Sensory Experiences we are helping babies understand the world safely, safe sensory activities from a young age act as a ‘brain gym’ which helps brain and physical development laying strong foundation for future problem-solving, memory, and spatial awareness, Language Development, Physical Development and Understanding Cause and Effect.

We love Sensory Play at Kim’s….. and as you can see so do my mini’s 💕

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Good Luck to all the children embarking on their GCSE’s over the next few week ♡

Good Luck to all the year 6’s on Sat’s week ♡

Remember tests and exams don’t measure how awesome, kind, caring, and wonderful people you are 🫶

P.S I feel very old…. 16 years as a childminder and some of my first ever babies doing their GCSE’s 🥲 and about to embark in their next amazing adventures ♥︎

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⭐️ The unseen part of being a Childminder ⭐️

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

🌍 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝔻𝕒𝕪 🌍

There is no better way to spend World Earth Day than out in the fresh air and sunshine preparing our allotment box for the yummy fruits and veg we will be planting out in May ☀️

This year the Children have decided to grow;

🌽 - Baby Corn & Sweetcorn
🍅 - Red and Orange Plum Tomatoes
🫑 - Sweet Baby Peppers
🍠 - Squash
🎃 - Mini Ghost Pumpkins

Alongside the 🍓& Raspberries that grow yearly!

These are all growing nicely in the greenhouse. We’ve had lots of wonderful conversations about growing & taking care of the allotment, the importance of Worms, Bee’s and Butterflys, how to stay healthy & how to take care of the world 💙
While chasing the clouds we noticed we could see 2 planets, the Sun & the Moon, and we are on Planet Earth making it three!