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The phrase "a childminder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who is paid to take care of children, typically in their own home, while the parents are at work or otherwise occupied.
Example: "After searching for weeks, we finally found a reliable childminder to look after our kids during the day."
Alternatives: "a nanny" or "a babysitter".
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A childminder took the girl to school.
Are you a GP, a childminder or a magician?
Mum, who worked as a childminder, is like Supermum.
How I wish she had left us with a childminder.
I'm a childminder and the four-year-old boy I look after loves it.
A childminder who works 16 hours a week, Farinhas said she is now terrified of losing her flat.
Officially he drops out of the long-term unemployment numbers because sometimes Stevenson hires him as a childminder.
By contrast, a childminder will have a maximum of three children under five in his or her care.
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Children participating in ECEC were further divided among those cared for in a center (variously defined as nursery, crèche, day-care center, or preschool) and those cared for in a non-center setting (which included care by a grandparent, another relative, a nanny, childminder, or family-based ECEC).
I certainly hope so". Linda Price, 55, a former childminder, says there is a vast contrast between her life now and that of her own grandmother at the same age.
Another notional couple with joint earnings of £39,000 (he earns £28,000 and she £11,000) who work 42 hours between them and have a baby cared for by a registered childminder while they are at work, would lose even more – some 6.9% of disposable income in 2011-12 compared with 2010-11.
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