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You can download and print the workbooks that we produced for the workshops. Please note, the Sure Start's 'Business Success for Programme' has now ended (June 2005).
Mind your business
This guide is designed to take childminders through the essentials of looking after a business. It's designed to help you identify the things that you want to do to take care of your business and offers the advice, guidance, tools and techniques to help you do those things better.
Planning for business success
The 'Team steps to success' series consists of a foundation module and four guides. The techniques and practical planning ideas found in the planning foundation module can be applied to the concepts contained in the four guides, that cover the business fundamentals, to improve the success and sustainablity of your childcare setting.
Managing your childcare business
Team steps to success: Managing your childcare business guide
Marketing your childcare business
Team steps to success: Marketing your childcare business guide
Pricing your childcare service
Team steps to success: Pricing your childcare service guide
Managing finance
Team steps to success: Managing finance guide
Knowing your business
See how this information can be used to produce a simple at-a-glance, one-page system, outlining the setting’s business position, that can be presented on just one piece of paper.
Next steps in marketing
Especially designed for group-childcare settings (including nurseries, out-of-school clubs and pre-schools), this workshop and guide follows on from the Marketing your childcare business module. Run through an interactive workshop format, the module will be of benefit to those who have attended the previous Team steps to success: Marketing your childcare business module, or as a stand-alone workshop.
Working with parents: Relationship management
This new workshop is designed to assist childminders with managing and negotiating their business relationships. The module ensures that childminders can communicate effectively with parents on a range of issues.
Extracts from these documents may be reproduced free of charge for non-commercial or training purposes on the condition that the source is acknowledged as crown copyright. The title of the document must be included when being produced as part of another publication or service.
Disclaimer
Where these booklets are used as part of a training package, Sure Start, Extended Schools and Childcare Group accepts no responsibility for the quality of any training, trainer or any other material provided by them unless such a person has been specifically authorised by the Sure Start, Extended Schools and Childcare Group to deliver the programme on its behalf.
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Last updated on 30/04/2009
