Working in childcare can be a very exciting and rewarding experience; childcare professionals face many challenges and have a great deal of fulfilment over the course of their career and are key to providing our future generations with the fun, skills and curiosity for living a happy and healthy life.

All adults looking to work with children will have to undergo a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check before they start their new job. The same strict controls apply when starting up a new business in childcare.

If you feel you have the motivation, skills and qualities to embrace those responsibilities there are opportunities in childcare to be taken.

In this section

• Careers in childcare
• Childcare Sufficiency Audit
• Training opportunities
• Criminal Records Bureau