I've been minding 13 years and have never know it so quiet! It used to be that I would get calls all the time... but then they just stopped and I had to apply for the sustainability grant in the summer. Then, all of a sudden, I got 2 little ones and have had to turn away school age cos I can't pick them up!!!
Jo, have you got a website? Not the Usborne one but a personal one? Cos you can give the name to CIS and they'll put the link in for you - that way parents can access you direct from the CIS website without being given a ream of names and phone numbers - sure some give up half way down!
Also, if you ring (or ask CIS to ring you) weekly, you'll automatically pop to the top of their internet vacancy list
Check what's on your CIS listing and update it - make it sound better than everybody elses - CIS are there to help you, so use them! Read the others and work on the wording and phrasing of yours so it stands out
I got a child from the CIS list and the mother said mine was the best listing to read and she followed the link to my website and was impressed by the simple way I had laid out the information on the website (she didn't want whizzy stuff, just easy-to-read uptodate details)
Good luck!
Sarah x
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