Completing your childminder profile

The steps

Your profile has seven steps: About you, Checks, Rates, Availability, Services, A typical day and Your home. It saves as you go, so you can stop and come back.

What's required before checking

• About you: setting name, a one-line tagline, an introduction of at least 80 characters, years of experience, languages, town, postcode, mobile, email and your county.
• Checks: Ofsted URN, which inspection you have (and the date, rating and report link if you've been inspected), DBS certificate number and issue date, paediatric first aid and public liability insurance expiry dates.
• Rates: standard hourly rate, whether meals are included, and the funded hours you accept ("No funding accepted" counts as an answer).
• Availability: the ages you accept.
• Services: earliest start, latest finish, all year or term-time, and whether you drive with car seats.
• A typical day: at least one part of the day, with a time and what happens.
• Your home: garden or outdoor space, pets (and details if yes), smoker in the household, and at least one photo.

Sending for checking

1. 1Go to the last step, Done. It shows a Still needed list — click any item to jump to it.
2. 2When the list is empty, click Send for checking.
3. 3We check your registration and email you when your profile is live.

Once you're live

You can keep improving your profile. Required details can be changed but not left empty, and you must keep at least one photo.