The Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) set up Business Smart to provide new childminders with business skills, knowledge and confidence to build up their childcare and early years businesses. It also hopes to help established childminding settings review their business sustainability.
PACEY has developed the online toolkit by asking a range of self-employed childcare providers from across the country to contribute to its development stages.
The organisation ran a survey with over 500 childminders to find out more about their business needs and concerns, and followed this up with workshops for around 50, and then face-to-face and telephone interviews with around 20 more childminders.
The free online resource provides guidance on subjects from the initial stages of writing a business plan to planning new services or expansion. It will also provide a range of tools for analysing childminding businesses, including a cost calculator.
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