This childminder is absolutely phenomenal and to this day I can't believe I found her on this website. As a first-time mum I was really scared about leaving my little girl who at the time was only seven months old with a stranger. I posted my need on this website and Maggie got in touch and was so enthusiastic over the phone that I had to meet her.

Upon meeting her I could tell just how much passion she had for working with children by the way she treated my little girl. She was less interested in discussing contracts, timings, penalties and restrictions and was much more interested in showing us what she could do and she took an immediate interest in my child rather than the bureaucracy that goes with childminding.

I was immediately put at ease and chose her to look after my little girl for 2 1/2 years until she joined a school based nursery. She is one of the youngest in her year having been born in August but I am always told just how clever she is and just how polite she is and I know that a lot of this is down to having had the most amazing childminder.

Maggie works alongside parents to achieve goals for children. She takes the children out on trips like they were her own, feeds them with good food, read to them, dances with them, sings with them, loves them, potty trains them, helps them to build their confidence and the list goes on and on.

OFSTED rates Maggie as outstanding; I rate her as a godsend. She will forever be in our lives now as to us she became much more than just a childminder.

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