Overview
LEVEL 3 · CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Child Minding A CPD course for practising childminders and home-based early years practitioners in England and Wales. NINE MODULES · 20-QUESTION ASSESSMENT · ENGLAND AND WALES CPD HOURS 25 hours ACCREDITED BY CPD Standards …
Course Details
Child Minding
A CPD course for practising childminders and home-based early years practitioners in England and Wales.
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Overview
Level 3 Child Minding is a continuing professional development course for people already working in home-based childcare in England and Wales — registered childminders, childminder assistants stepping up, and nannies or early years practitioners moving into registered childminding. Across nine modules it consolidates the knowledge a Level 3 practitioner is expected to hold and turns it toward daily practice: the regulatory frameworks of both nations, child development, curriculum and observation in a home setting, safeguarding, health and safety, inclusion, and the partnership and business skills that keep a good setting open.
The course is honest about what it is. It is CPD: a structured refresher and deepener for practising professionals. It is not a regulated qualification, not an award on the RQF or a Welsh equivalent, and not a licence to practise. Registration as a childminder is granted only by Ofsted, a childminder agency or Care Inspectorate Wales, and statutory training requirements — paediatric first aid, safeguarding — are met through the routes those regulators specify. Every module states the jurisdiction whenever law is quoted, because England and Wales genuinely differ: the EYFS applies only in England; Wales works to the National Minimum Standards, the Wales Safeguarding Procedures and the ALN system.
Who this course is for
Learners should already work with children; the course assumes practical experience. Not an introduction to childcare for complete beginners, and completing it does not by itself qualify anyone to register or to work unsupervised.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, learners can:
Describe the registration routes, registers and regulators for childminding in England and in Wales, and the current funded-childcare entitlements in each nation.
Apply the EYFS requirements for childminders (England) or the National Minimum Standards (Wales), including ratio limits, welfare requirements and inspection expectations.
Explain how young children develop — brain architecture, serve-and-return interaction, attachment, schemas and communication — and use that knowledge in a mixed-age home setting.
Plan an intentional curriculum through play, everyday routines and the local community, and run a proportionate observation, assessment and planning cycle, including the progress check at age two (England).
Recognise indicators of abuse and neglect, respond correctly to a disclosure, and refer through the correct route in their nation — as the setting’s own designated safeguarding lead.
Operate the welfare backbone of a setting: risk-benefit assessment, safer sleep, food safety and allergen management, medicines, accident procedures and safe outings.
Meet the anticipatory duties of the Equality Act 2010 and operate the graduated approach (England) or the ALN system (Wales) in partnership with parents and professionals.
Run the setting professionally: records, UK GDPR obligations, policies, contracts, insurance and sustainable pricing, with a live CPD plan.
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Course structure
The Professional Childminder
Regulation, the EYFS and Inspection
How Young Children Develop
Curriculum, Play and the Learning Environment
Observation, Assessment and Planning
Safeguarding and Child Protection
Health, Safety and Everyday Wellbeing
Inclusive Practice, SEND and ALN
Partnerships, Records and Running Your Setting
Frequently asked questions
Q. Is this a qualification?
No. It is CPD. It is not a regulated qualification, does not sit on the RQF or Qualifications Wales frameworks, and carries no automatic credit toward one. A regulated Level 3 early years qualification is a different course.
Q. Will this course register me as a childminder?
No. Registration is granted only by Ofsted or a childminder agency in England, or by Care Inspectorate Wales. This course helps you understand and prepare for those processes; it does not replace any part of them.
Q. Does it satisfy my statutory safeguarding or first aid training?
No. Paediatric first aid must be a full 12-hour approved course, renewed every three years, and safeguarding training must meet your framework’s requirements. Modules 6 and 7 are awareness-level CPD alongside that training, not instead of it.
Q. Is it accredited, and how many CPD points is it worth?
Accreditation and CPD-point value depend on the provider delivering the course. Neither is claimed here; both are confirmed by the provider before publication.
Q. Does it cover Scotland or Northern Ireland?
No. The course is written for England and Wales, whose rules differ from each other and are handled separately throughout. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different regulators and different rules, including different ratios.
Q. How current is the content?
Figures and statutory references were verified in August 2026. The EYFS is revised almost annually — a new version takes effect 1 September 2026 — and funding rules move each year in both nations. Re-check before every delivery.
Q. Do I have to buy anything else to complete it?
No. All embedded video and reading resources are free to access. If a linked video becomes unavailable, the slide content stands alone.
Q. Will it help my inspection grade?
It can help you understand what inspection now involves and where settings most often fall short — but no course can promise a grade, and you should be wary of any that does.
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Course Features
- Lectures 11
- Quizzes 2
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 2
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
