What is Community Childminding?
A community childminding service supports families in crisis or provides early intervention as a preventative measure. Any such service which offers a resource to identified parents / carers whose circumstances preclude them from engaging in the community.
Who can access such services?
- Parents referred by social workers
- Parents referred by health workers
- Parents referred by Working for Families Link workers
- Parents referred by Home Link workers
Partnership Working:
Effective partnership working is a key aspect of effective early intervention. SCMA has a proven track record of running multi-funded services, ensuring all clients have the same opportunity to access service provision locally, that matches individual needs.
We have experience of working with the following agencies and departments;
- Social Work Agency
- Health Departments
- Working for Families Services
- Home Link Services
- Job Centre Plus
- Childcare Partnerships
We also have extensive experience of working with Sure Start programmes and have established procedures and protocols created specifically for such programmes.
SCMA can link effectively with all appropriate agencies concerned and offer:
- Attendance at specified inter-agency meetings
- Mediation and Complaints Resolution service
- Monitoring and evaluation presentations
- Emergency placements
- Feedback from service users and providers
Service Aims
Benefiting children and families
The SCMA community childminding service will benefit children and families within local communities by aiming;
- To provide temporary relief, for caregivers and their families
- To encourage childminders to assist in providing care to children with disabilities, additional needs or to families where there is no other form of support
- To assist in providing additional childcare in areas designated with high indices of deprivation
- To tackle disadvantage in remote communities through the provision of local affordable, flexible childcare places
- To build on the highlighted need for childminders to diversify and become more involved in Family Support
- To liaise closely with other agencies directly in contact with users
- To act as role models to support parents and carers in developing key skills