I have been sending my daughter to be looked after by Rafia since May this year for 4 days a week and she has flourished during this time. We unfortunately had a bad experience with another childminder prior to starting with Rafia, who did not allow us to have a settling in period and was generally terrible. My daughter struggled with not having me from day 1 and struggled with the childminder’s uncaring manner (as did I), and so we removed her from her care after 2 days.



We were lucky then to find Rafia who put us at ease and allowed us to settle her in nicely. My daughter was quite anxious due to the experience she’d had, but after a short time would happily go into Rafia’s house. She always has a great time and Rafia clearly loves looking after kids. She provides good meals and great activities and my daughter is always happy at the end of the day. I am at ease when I am at work knowing that she is safe and looked after. My daughter has learnt a lot, is much more sociable with other children and Rafia also encouraged us to potty train her, which I did not think that I would be able to do whilst working, but we managed with her support too. Rafia is also great with communicating with me, very approachable and friendly, and I would definitely recommend other parents to choose Rafia as a childminder

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