Gillian Evans is the Development and Network Co-ordinator for RCT - click on picture to enlarge to read about her childminding career
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National Childminding Association
Children Come First Childminding Network

NCMA Children Come First is a quality improvement scheme for childminding networks. Over two-thirds of the childminding networks have chosen to become quality-assured by NCMA Children Come First because it's:
  • the only quality improvement scheme for childminding networks recognised across England and Wales.
  • well-recognised across the childcare sector.
  • the only scheme which enables networks to accredit childminders to offer early years education to 3 and 4 year olds.
  • designed especially for childminding networks and childminders.
  • developed to give networks a strong working framework, which encourages them to plan for the future.
A childminding network is made up of a group of registered childminders who are supported by a network coordinator who is employed to manage the network (usually by a local authority). To be quality-assured by NCMA Children Come First a childminding network must show an independent assessor that it meets the NCMA Children Come First Criteria and it must be reapproved every three years.

Childminders joining a Children Come First network must demonstrate to the network coordinator that they meet the network standards and agree to the coordinator visiting regularly.

Because the many networks are set up to support particular local projects, for example, caring for the children of teenage parents as they return to school or training, or to provide respite care to families.

If you are planning to work with, or join, a childminding network, ask about NCMA Children Come First approval as networks which aren’t approved may not work to the same criteria and offer the same services that quality-assured networks do.
For more information please contact

NCMA
Early Years and Family Support Services
Ty Trevithick
Abercynon
Mountain Ash
CF45 4UQ

Telephone:
Development Worker on 01443 744375
Gillian Evans on 01443 744373

or you can visit http://www.ncma.org.uk

Development Post

The Development Post promotes childminding both to people interested in a career in childcare and parents wanting to use childcare. The post provides support throughout the registration process as well as providing support and training to childminders who are already registered.

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Cymdeithas Genedlaethol Gwarchod Plant
Rhwydwaith Plant yn Gyntaf

Cynllun codi safonau ar gyfer rhwydweithiau carco plant ydy Rhwydwaith Plant yn Gyntaf NCMA. Mae dros ddeuparth o’r rhwydweithiau carco plant wedi dewis dod yn ddarpariaethau Plant yn Gyntaf NCMA sy wedi’u cymeradwyo oherwydd:

  • dyma’r unig gynllun gwella safonau ar gyfer rhwydweithiau carco plant yng Nghymru a Lloegr.
  • mae’n dra hysbys ar draws y sector gofal plant.
  • dyma’r unig gynllun sy’n caniatáu rhwydweithiau i achredu carcwyr plant i gynnig gwasanaethau addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar i blant rhwng 3 a 4 oed.
  • mae e wedi’i gynllunio’n arbennig ar gyfer rhwydweithiau carco plant a charcwyr plant.
  • mae e wedi’i ddatblygu i gynnig fframwaith gadarn ar gyfer rhwydweithiau, ac sy’n eu hannog nhw i gynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol.
Mae rhwydwaith carco plant yn cynnwys cylch o garcwyr plant cofrestredig y mae cydlynydd y rhwydwaith sy wedi’i gyflogi i reoli’r rhwydwaith (gan yr awdurdod lleol yn amlach na pheidio) yn rhoi cymorth iddyn nhw. I ennill cymeradwyaeth Plant yn Gyntaf NCMA o ran ansawdd, mae gofyn bod rhwydwaith carco plant yn dangos prawf i aseswr annibynnol ei bod hi’n bodloni meini prawf Plant yn Gyntaf NCMA ac mae gofyn ail-wneud hyn bod 3 blynedd.

Mae gofyn bod carcwyr plant sy’n dod yn rhan o rwydwaith Plant yn Gyntaf yn dangos eu bod nhw’n bodloni safonau’r rhwydwaith ac yn cytuno bod y cydlynydd yn galw heibio i’w gweld yn rheolaidd.

Gan fod nifer o’r rhwydweithiau wedi’u sefydlu’n gefn i gynlluniau lleol penodol, er enghraifft, rhoi gofal i blant sydd â rhieni’n eu harddegau wrth iddyn nhw fynd yn ôl i’r ysgol neu hyfforddiant, neu gynnig gofal seibiant i deuluoedd.

Os ydych chi’n bwriadu gweithio gyda rhwydwaith carco plant, neu ymuno ag un, gofynnwch am ragor o fanylion am gymeradwyaeth ansawdd Plant yn Gyntaf NCMA oherwydd efallai fydd rhwydweithiau sydd heb eu cymeradwyo ddim yn cymhwyso’r un meini prawf ac yn cynnig yr un gwasanaethau ag y mae rhwydweithiau sy wedi’u cymeradwyo’n eu cynnig.
I gael rhagor o fanylion, cysylltwch â

NCMA
Gwasanaethau Addysg y Blynyddoedd Cynnar a Chymorth i Deuluoedd
Ty Trevithick
Abercynon
Aberpennar
CF45 4UQ

Ffôn:
Swyddog Datblygu ar 01443 744375
Gillian Evans ar 01443 744373

neu alw heibio i http://www.ncma.org.uk

 

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