1. SCOTTISH BORDERS SUPPORTED CHILDMINDING SCHEME Margot Black, Early Years Strategy Officer Linda Davidson, Early Years Assessment Team Jill Hosker, Childminding Development Officer, SCMA

2. What was missing?

3. What did we hope to achieve? Nurturing Address inequalities Meet need holistically Early Intervention – prevention Working in partnership with parents, referrers and childminders

4. How? SCMA were willing to administer the scheme Joint funding through Sure Start and Childcare Strategy funding Started as a pilot in 2005

5. Who makes it work? Childminders Recruitment Training Referrers Health Visitors Teachers Social Workers Criminal Justice Team Voluntary Organisations Mental Health Organisations Others

6. The Referral Process childminder referrerSCMA

7. Current Situation The service continues to grow. 42 childminders registered Borders wide 85 children placed with the childminders so far this year

8. Evaluation Barriers and constraints Resource limitations How well it works – evaluation process Steering Group

9. The voice of the parent – “The service has been an excellent and crucial factor in me being able to start putting our lives back together after an extremely traumatic few months. The service and Laura specifically has really helped develop Megan into a happy, confident and independent child. For that I will always be extremely grateful”.

10. Transferability Childminders – largely untapped community resource Dr Christine Stephen Scottish Government funded external review March 2011 Early Years Early Action Fund – Stirling and Fife, launched October 2011 National opportunity?