childminder question need parents veiws

[dmo]

our network co-ordiator has decided we childminders should not attend toddler groups anymore as we only go for ourselves and not the children [shock. she thinks that the children would gain more from 100% attension in our own homes on foucused activites she has also said all the stay and play sessions at surestart have been cancelled (dont mind cause didint go to them)

i go to 4 toddler groups per week, my children love them, if they didnt i wouldnt go.
i have the main children for 10hr days so 2hrs out of the day is spent at a toddler group, 2hrs a day on eating, so the children still have 6hrs a week of just me and them time (and btw also the 2hrs at toddler group)

ofsted have said they would like to see 80% child lead activites and 20% focused activites (so in my mind toddler groups are child lead)

what do you think? would you as parents like your cm to go out and about with your child or have your child stay at the cm home for focused activities??
all answers are correct i just want to know what the genral feel about this is
thanks

DS2 went to a wonderful childminder from 6mths old until he went to school, as CAT said (such better than me) I chose a childminder over a nursery BECAUSE she did things that I would have done at home with him and much more.

We do not live in the same vilage as the boys school but because of the friends DS2 had made at toddlers he knew lots of people in his class when he started school. For quite a few years I was known in the village as DS2's mum because all his friends mums knew him from toddlers.

I would be very disappointed if my childminder did not take my child to toddler groups.