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Title: Causeway Childminding Group Date: 18th February 2010 Brief Description: SNACC childminders recently voted to revert back to the group’s original name - Causeway Childminding Group More Details...

Title: What is Yummy Mummy Week? Date: 16th February 2010 Brief Description: Yummy Mummy is a national campaign that’s run by CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity. More Details...

Title: NICMA WEEK INFORMATION: 3 – 7 May 2010 Date: 12th February 2010 Brief Description: NICMA Week this year will run from 3 - 7 May and will be an excellent opportunity to promote NICMA services and to raise the profile of registered childminders. The NICMA Week theme this year will focus on ‘Promoting Children’s Physical Dev More Details...

Title: A Play Policy for Northern Ireland Date: 11th January 2010 Brief Description: OFMDFM in association with PlayBoard and a number of Key Stakeholders are developing a Play Policy for Northern Ireland. More Details... View News Source...

Title: Northern Ireland Vetting and Barring Date: 28th October 2009 Brief Description: Background - context The Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) was established under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (N.I.) Order 2007 and was launched on the 12 October 2009. More Details...

Title: RECOGNITION OF LONG SERVICE TO CHILDMINDING Date: 19th October 2009 Brief Description: Click on More details to see who got recognised and View News Source to see the photographs. More Details... View News Source...

Title: The Play and Leisure Policy for Northern Ireland Stage 2 Developing Play and Leisure Implementation Plans. Date: 9th July 2009 Brief Description: Following the publication of the Play and Leisure Policy for Northern Ireland earlier this year, the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) has now established an Implementation Group to take forward the develop More Details...

Title: CHILDMINDING SUPPORT GROUP NEWSLETTER JUNE 2009 Date: 22nd June 2009 Brief Description: News & information. More Details...

Title: ‘CHILDMINDING TOUCHES LIVES...’ Date: 17th June 2009 Brief Description: NICMA’s Special Edition publication which celebrates 25 years of Childminding in Northern Ireland. More Details...

Title: NICMA MEMBERS 50% DISCOUNT IN THE PLAY CAFÉ NEWTOWNARDS Date: 9th June 2009 Brief Description: THE PLAY CAFÉ, NEWTOWNARDS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NICMA ARE OFFERING ANOTHER GREAT DISCOUNT FOR NICMA MEMBERS. More Details...

Title: NICMA Week Date: 28th May 2009 Brief Description: NICMA Week this year ran from 11 – 17 May and was an excellent opportunity to promote NICMA services and to raise the profile of registered childminders. More Details...

Title: Crumlin Support group’s “Teddy Bear Picnic." Date: 7th May 2009 Brief Description: Crumlin Support group had a lot to celebrate at their NICMA Week Teddy Bear’s Picnic More Details...

Title: ‘CHILDMINDING ADVISORY COUNCIL’ Date: 20th April 2009 Brief Description: NICMA are actively seeking childminding members to sit on the ‘CHILDMINDING ADVISORY COUNCIL’ in the following areas: Belfast; Ballymena area; Bangor and North Down; Dungannon and surrounding areas; Newry and surrounding areas. More Details...

Title: LIMAVADY & DISTRICT CHILDMINDING SUPPORT GROUP Date: 13th March 2009 Brief Description: Limavady and District Childminding Support Group meets every Monday morning from 9.30 to 11.30 am in Buttercup Toy Library, Rossmar School, Ballyquin Road, Limavady. More Details...

Title: CHILDMINDING SUPPORT GROUP NEWSLETTER Date: 24th February 2009 Brief Description: News & Information for Childminding Support Group members More Details...

Title: Information and Training Evening Date: 4th February 2009 Brief Description: Information and Training Evening for Registered Childminders in the Omagh Area. More Details...

Title: ‘WEE FOLK’ DROP-IN-CENTRE, OMAGH Date: 3rd February 2009 Brief Description: Omagh Childminding Drop-in-Centre (‘WEE FOLK’) meets every Friday morning from 10.00am – 12 noon. More Details...

Title: ENNISKILLEN CHILDMINDING SUPPORT GROUP Date: 3rd February 2009 Brief Description: The Enniskillen Childminding Support group meet in the Family Centre, Coleshill, at 8.00pm on the 1st Thursday of each month More Details...

Title: Childminding Support Groups Date: 18th December 2008 Brief Description: Christmas Parties More Details...

Title: Childminders from the Bangor and Peninsula Childminding Support Groups recently completed the Top Tots Activity Training Date: 1st December 2008 Brief Description: Childminders from the Bangor and Peninsula Childminding Support Groups recently completed the Top Tots Activity Training. The Training Course was funded by the Fit Futures initiative. More Details...

Title: Congratulations to Ballynahinch Childminding Support Group Date: 1st December 2008 Brief Description: Congratulations to Ballynahinch Childminding Support Group who have sold 700 copies of their cookery book – “The Childminders Cook Book”. More Details...

Title: NICMA Children’s Learning and Development Project Date: 12th November 2008 Brief Description: In Northern Ireland childminding [Family daycare/Family childcare] is the most popular form of Daycare and yet it is not recognised as a professional childcare service providing care and education to the same standard as other forms of Earl More Details...

Title: NICMA Annual Review 07/08 Launched Date: 25th September 2008 Brief Description: NICMA's Annual Review for 07/08 has been launched this document includes details of the organisations activities throughout the year

Title: ‘Choosing a Childminder – a guide for parents’ Date: 30th May 2008 More Details...

Title: FOOD SAFETY Date: 6th March 2008 Brief Description: From January 2006 it became a legal requirement for Registered childminders to register as a food business with their local council. More Details...

Title: On Line Childminding Vacancy Service Date: 8th November 2007 Brief Description: EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR NICMA! With the increasing use of the internet for all sources of information, NICMA have developed an On-Line Childminding Vacancy service which will complement our telephone vacancy service that.. More Details...

Title: Exciting new Children’s learning & Development Project Date: 24th October 2007 Brief Description: Children’s Learning and Development Project: Would you like to be involved? More Details...

Title: NICMA response to the Daily Mail article of 29 August Date: 30th August 2007 Brief Description: NICMA – the Childminding Association is disappointed to read the Daily Mail article of 29 August 2007 entitled ‘‘Thousands at risk from ‘inadequate’ childminders’ and wholeheartedly supports the response published by the National Childmindi More Details...

Title: CALL FOR EDUCATION MINISTER TO CHAMPION EARLY YEARS STRATEGY Date: 30th July 2007 Brief Description: An alliance of groups working with and for children and their families, is urging the Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, to champion the care and education of our youngest children within the new Assembly in Northern Ireland. More Details...

Title: PUBLICATION OF CHILDMINDING GUIDES INTO LITHUANIAN AND POLISH Date: 18th July 2007 Brief Description: ‘Childminding as a Profession – a guide to registration’ is now available in Lithuanian and Polish. More Details... View News Source...

Title: NICMA unveils Childminder Start-Up Package proposal. Date: 29th June 2007 Brief Description: NEWS RELEASE NICMA unveils Childminder Start-Up Package proposal.The Association is urging the Executive to introduce a package of financial and practical support for new childminders, to help attract new recruits and to prevent childminde More Details...

Title: SURESTART CHILDMINDING NETWORKS Date: 25th May 2007 Brief Description: A Childminding Network is a formal group of registered childminders who are recruited in a particular geographical area and assessed and monitored to quality standards by a Childminding Network Co-ordinator. More Details...

Title: NICMA - Encourages Women into Childcare Careers Date: 27th February 2007 Brief Description: NICMA is committed to developing training opportunities as an agency and strives to make available innovative initiatives for training delivery, considering the unique difficulties of women accessing training i.e. More Details...

Title: New Arts & Crafts Website Feature Date: 1st January 2007 Brief Description: NICMA has launched its new Arts & Crafts section on our website. The feature has been created due to requests from you - NICMA Childminders! More Details... View News Source...

Title: HOME CHILDCARERS SCHEME Date: 1st January 2007 Brief Description: What is the Home Childcarers scheme?: The Government has introduced a new form of approved childcare, which will take place in the parent’s home – the home childcarer. Parents using approved home childcarers will be able to receive support More Details... View News Source...