Anyone know anything about the history of childminding??

[mindermummy]

How and why??

Any links??
Googled it and nothing really??

I think it goes back to the 18th century when single mothers and the poor paid women to take care of their children in their homes so that they could go out to work.
It was kind of a care home for children, if some were lucky they were fed, others were left to die. The mother would just leave them with the minder for months if not years so that she could work or whatever . There would be loads of babies and children in the house. The mother would pay for this.

You can trace back the origins of social services coming to inspect, and then Ofsted.

Why are you looking for it?

Google search has come up with:
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The NCMA was founded in 1977 at a meeting held in the unlikely setting of a bus depot in Huddersfield.
The aims established by the NCMA when it was set up are essentially the same today. Its initial services, though more basic then, are also still key services today ? the provision of advice and information to workers who essentially work in their own homes in self-employed isolation, offering public liability insurance, publishing handbooks and other materials and acting as the voice for childminders on the national stage, enhancing their status as a professional group.

Centre for Research in Early Childhood
THE OECD THEMATIC REVIEW OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: Background Report
See page 13 of this document.
Some things it mentions are:
Childminders and Nurseries Regulation Act 1948
Health Services and Public Health Act 1968
Social Services taking over registration of childminders in the 1970's.
In 1977, the BBC ran 19 programmes called "Other People?s Children", which was aimed at training childminders. This encouraged childminders to network, and the NCMA was born.

Children Act 1989 - this is often cited as being a significant Act in the childcare field. So if you are writing about how legislation has affected childminders, probably best to include reference to the Children Act 1989.

Possibly worth a read is : Review of Childminding Research, by Peter Moss