Louise and her fabulous assistant (also a qualified child minder) have helped to restore my (and my husbands) faith in the child minding profession. Following quite a neglectful experience with my first child minder, I had to break away from my teacher training to take care of my daughter full time. After a couple of months, I decided to relook at local childminders and that's when I stumbled across Louise....to which I have not looked back since!

Louise is the most open and honest person I know, right from the start her main priority was making sure the care that would be provided to our daughter was right for her and us as a family. Louise listened and understood all our concerns about childcare and repeatedly put my mind at rest with her

Louise provides a calm, relaxed and safe environment where the children in her care can grow and prosper to their full potential. Right from the start Louise was supportive of the objectives I wanted to achieve with my daughter, at the time of starting my daughter was 16 months old and refused to eat nothing but jar food (causing big problems for us as a family - this issue mainly caused by first childminder refusing to give her food which wasn't from a jar). Louise agreed to help support us in our goal to get her to eat normally, now aged 2 she eats everything placed in front of her and life is so much easier! This is all down to the hard work Louise and her assistant, Tracey have put into my daughters eating plan!! My daughter attachment to her dummy is also no more, she now only has it night time and during the day she is dummy free. Again this is down to the determination of Louise and Tracey :)

As a trainee teacher, I needed flexibility in my child care. Louise accommodates more than enough for this. admittedly my daughter has 'set' hours but Louise has had to repeatedly had to keep my daughter when things crop up at school. Again this is never a problem for her. Louise is also flexible in payment, instead of charging per half term like most child minders, she works out the cost for the school year and then divides it over the whole year which helps to split and even out payments which is so much better for family finances.

Overall I could easily reiterate all of the above review as well. Louise's house has a warm and loving feeling, it is well equipped for learning and playing. Plenty of toys and activities for the children to do. The children all eat together like a little family as well, helping to ensue good table manners in the little ones.

I can honestly say Louise has turned our opinion of childcare around, and I will certainly not be changing my childcare until my daughter goes into school where I'll be forced to hand my daughter over to some one other than Louise who is just wonderful with her! If you are reading this, then stop and look no further as Louise is exactly who you want :-)