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In April 2012 NCMA launched a campaign, Individual Inspection Matters, calling on the Government to retain individual registration and inspection of childminders in England. The campaign was launched in response to concerns that the Government is planning to take childminding out of the current inspection and regulation system and that this could lead to deregulation or regulation with a "lighter touch".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1130256/Campaign-stop-childminder-deregulation/|title=Campaign to stop childminder deregulation|author=Gaunt, Catherine|publisher= ''[[Nursery World]]''|date= 3 May 2012 |accessdate= 6 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/childminders-warn-against-lighter-regulation|title=Childminders warn against 'lighter touch' regulation|author= Moorhead, Joanna |publisher= ''[[The Guardian]]''|date= 15 May 2012 |accessdate= 21 May 2012}}</ref> NCMA expressed concern that stepping away from individual Ofsted inspection threatened childminders' professional status.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/jun/06/get-ahead-in-childminding?newsfeed=true|title=How to get ahead in ... childminding|author= Andalo, Debbie |publisher= ''[[The Guardian]]''|date= 6 June 2012 |accessdate= 12 June 2012}}</ref>
In April 2012 NCMA launched a campaign, Individual Inspection Matters, calling on the Government to retain individual registration and inspection of childminders in England. The campaign was launched in response to concerns that the Government is planning to take childminding out of the current inspection and regulation system and that this could lead to deregulation or regulation with a "lighter touch".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1130256/Campaign-stop-childminder-deregulation/|title=Campaign to stop childminder deregulation|author=Gaunt, Catherine|publisher= ''[[Nursery World]]''|date= 3 May 2012 |accessdate= 6 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/15/childminders-warn-against-lighter-regulation|title=Childminders warn against 'lighter touch' regulation|author= Moorhead, Joanna |publisher= ''[[The Guardian]]''|date= 15 May 2012 |accessdate= 21 May 2012}}</ref> NCMA expressed concern that stepping away from individual Ofsted inspection threatened childminders' professional status.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/jun/06/get-ahead-in-childminding?newsfeed=true|title=How to get ahead in ... childminding|author= Andalo, Debbie |publisher= ''[[The Guardian]]''|date= 6 June 2012 |accessdate= 12 June 2012}}</ref>

In March 2013 Catherine Farrell, PACEY's joint executive, criticised government plans to plans to increase the number of children that childcare providers can look after in England and to introduce childminder agencies as being "likely to reduce quality for children".<ref name="Ratios">{{cite news | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21876719 | title=Nursery ratio plans criticised by government adviser | work=[[BBC News]] | date=22 March 2013 | accessdate=22 March 2013 | author=Richardson, Hannah}}</ref>


==Communications==
==Communications==

Revision as of 12:59, 22 March 2013

Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years
AbbreviationPACEY
Formation1977 (as National Childminding Association)[1]; relaunched as PACEY, 18 March 2013[2]
Legal statuscharity and membership organisation
HeadquartersLondon
Location
Region served
England and Wales and the Isle of Man
Official language
English; Welsh
Chief Executive
Liz Bayram and Catherine Farrell (jointly)[3]
Main organ
The Childcare Professional (magazine, published every two months)[4]
Budget
£11.75 million[5]
Staff
185[6]
Websitehttp://www.pacey.org.uk/

Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) is a charity and membership organisation based in London and working in England and Wales. A standard-setting organisation, it promotes best practice and support childcare professionals to deliver high standards of care and learning.[7]

History

PACEY was founded, as the National Childminding Association (NCMA), in 1977 by a small group of registered childminders, local authority staff and parents.[1] Originally the Association covered the UK, but the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) [1] and the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA) [2] now support childminding in Scotland and Northern Ireland.[1] NCMA changed its name to Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years in March 2013, to reflect the broadening of its membership to include nursery workers as well as childminders and nannies and the growing recognition of its members' professionalism.[1]

Organisation

The Association's President, since March 2013, is Penny Tassoni.[8]

The Chair, since September 2011,[9] is Sue Davis CBE, the first non-childcare professional in this role.[10] She was previously chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.[11]

Liz Bayram, who is also chair of Children England [3],[12] has been the Association's Chief Executive since December 2006[13][14]and now holds this post jointly with Catherine Farrell.

PACEY's head office is in Bromley, Kent. It also has an office in Cardiff, Wales.[15]

Registered childminders and nannies

Registered childminders care for one or more children under the age of eight for more than a total of two hours a day, usually in the childminder's home, for payment. They are usually self-employed and are inspected by Ofsted in England [4][16] or the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW), [5][17] to ensure they are providing a safe and stimulating environment for these children.

Unlike registered childminders, nannies are employed by parents, and work in the family home. They are not required to register with Ofsted in England or with CSSIW in Wales. However, to reassure parents that they have had an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check, first-aid and basic childcare training, nannies can join the voluntary Ofsted register or CSSIW's Voluntary Approval Scheme.[18]

The Association has campaigned against misuse of the term "childminder" in the media. In a letter to The Sun newspaper, Susanna Dawson, who was then the Association's Chair, said: "Registered childminders are not babysitters casually employed by parents. They are regulated and inspected by Ofsted against the same stringent criteria as other childcare providers."[19]

Research

At its 2005 annual conference, NCMA's then-President, British childcare expert Dr Penelope Leach, outlined details of the findings of the longest and most detailed studies of UK childcare, which concluded that young children who are looked after by their mothers do significantly better in developmental tests than those cared for in nurseries, by childminders or relatives.

It found babies and toddlers fared worst when they were given group nursery care. Those cared for by friends or grandparents or other relatives did a little better while those looked after by nannies or childminders were rated second only to those cared for by mothers.

The study, by researchers led by Leach and colleagues Kathy Sylva and Alan Stein, began in 1998 and involved 1,200 children and their families from north London and Oxfordshire. Mothers were interviewed when their babies were three months old and again when they were 10, 18, 36 and 51 months.[20]

In March 2013 PACEY's research report "Childcare – not just a job, a vocation" found that low pay and poor status are concerns across the childcare profession – among childminders, nursery workers and nannies. In spite of this, the study found that for every £1 childcare workers are paid, they generate between £7 and £9.50 worth of benefits to society.[21]

Campaigns

In 2001 NCMA campaigned for a reversal of new government regulations which allowed childminders to smack babies and toddlers and to smoke in the presence of children with parents' consent.[22][23][24]

In April 2012 NCMA launched a campaign, Individual Inspection Matters, calling on the Government to retain individual registration and inspection of childminders in England. The campaign was launched in response to concerns that the Government is planning to take childminding out of the current inspection and regulation system and that this could lead to deregulation or regulation with a "lighter touch".[25][26] NCMA expressed concern that stepping away from individual Ofsted inspection threatened childminders' professional status.[27]

In March 2013 Catherine Farrell, PACEY's joint executive, criticised government plans to plans to increase the number of children that childcare providers can look after in England and to introduce childminder agencies as being "likely to reduce quality for children".[28]

Communications

PACEY's magazine, The Childcare Professional, is published every two months.[4]

Members have access to three helplines – a health and wellbeing helpline, a childcare and early years helpline and a legal helpline.[29]

See also

External links

References and footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d "History of PACEY". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. ^ "March 2013 news". PACEY. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  3. ^ "Key staff". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  4. ^ a b "The Childcare Professional". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Analysis of Total Resources Expended" (PDF). NCMA Annual report 2011/12. National Childminding Association. 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  6. ^ "Structure, governance and management" (PDF). NCMA Annual report 2011/12. National Childminding Association. 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  7. ^ "About PACEY". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  8. ^ "President". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  9. ^ Morton, Katy (20 April 2011). "New NCMA chair is keeping an eye on cuts". Nursery World. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ "NMCA selects new Chair". National Childminding Association. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  11. ^ "Sue Davis CBE". Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust website. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  12. ^ Formerly the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (NCVCCO)
  13. ^ "Making a vision reality". Children Webmag. December 2005. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
  14. ^ Hofkins, Diane (17 June 2008). "A thorny transition". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. ^ "Office locations". National Childminding Association. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  16. ^ "How we inspect childminders". Ofsted. Retrieved 3 May 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ "Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales". CSSIW. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  18. ^ "Voluntary Approval Scheme". CSSIW. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  19. ^ Dawson, Susanna (13 May 2010). "Letter to the Sun". National Childminding Association. Retrieved 2 July 2011.
  20. ^ Roberts, Yvonne (2 October 2006). "Official: babies do best with mother". London: The Observer. Retrieved 16 March 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  21. ^ Hinchmore, Jon (18 March 2013). "Low pay and poor status are shared concerns for childminders, nannies and nursery workers". PACEY Local. PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  22. ^ "New rules that say smacking is okay". TES. 4 August 2000, updated 11 May 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  23. ^ "Parents 'ignorant of risks of passive smoking'". London: Daily Mail. 31 May 2001. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  24. ^ Mercer, Alison (8 March 2001). "Hodge replies to smoking question". Nursery World. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  25. ^ Gaunt, Catherine (3 May 2012). "Campaign to stop childminder deregulation". Nursery World. Retrieved 6 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  26. ^ Moorhead, Joanna (15 May 2012). "Childminders warn against 'lighter touch' regulation". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  27. ^ Andalo, Debbie (6 June 2012). "How to get ahead in ... childminding". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  28. ^ Richardson, Hannah (22 March 2013). "Nursery ratio plans criticised by government adviser". BBC News. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  29. ^ "Benefits of membership". PACEY. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  30. ^ Morton, Katy (17 February 2010). "NCMA film markets the childminding choice". Nursery World. Retrieved 22 June 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

See also

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