What has happened is that the wording on Page 51 of the Statutory Framework for the EYFS we all have already have states that "Each childminder may care for: a maximum of six children under the age of eight; of these six children, a maximum of three may be young children, however where four- and five-year-old children ONLY attend the childminding setting before and/or after a normal school day, they may be classed as children over the age of five for the purposes of the adult:child ratio;

The NCMA were expecting the revised EYFS (released last Monday) to have this wording changed to include holidays too... but it wasn't!! The Who Minds? article was written BEFORE last Monday's revisions.

Ofsted have been instructed to send all minders at letter in July, confirming the changes. If you ring them to ask about rising 5's they will tell you that they are only classed as over 5's during term time!

Lucy