I'm a CM. My policies (which parents must sign agreement to) are that I don't charge for accidental damage or wear and tear as they're par for the course but I do reserve the right to charge for deliberate damage. The situation described would be an accident and I wouldn't charge.
Unless it was simultaneous diarrhoea and vomiting, she can't have been watching him very closely....
Wow! We didn't even get off page one before the insinuations that childminders are neglectful witches started! When you're working with children, shit happens, quite often literally. My own DD exploded from both ends last time the D&V bug was going around, no warning, no build up, she was fine one second and the next she needed a shower, new pyjamas, new bedding, and her bedroom floor scrubbed. It was absolutely bloody everywhere, you wouldn't think a child could hold so much. I was reading her bedtime story at the time so she was being supervised. The supervision made no difference to the amount of mess.
No one has displayed 'massive disdain' toward CMs
Aside from the posters implying supervision may have been lacking, the poster wondering how long the child was sat on the rug "all alone", and one poster who said the OP should suggest to the CM that she doesn't have rugs in that room even though it's her house and she can rugs wherever the heck she likes, and the poster who wondered why the CM even mentioned the rug. I'd mention the rug to a parent as in "poor little Johnny is poorly, he's been sick and pooped all over the rug" - what exactly is out of line about that?