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National Care Standards for childcare agencies
Terms used
To help you understand the standards, here is an explanation of some of the terms used:
- you is used to refer to the parent, parents, child or children, separately or together;
- childcarer includes any person supplied or introduced to parents by a childcare agency to look after a child wholly or mainly in the parent's or parents' home or homes. Childcarers could be volunteers, self employed or paid employees;
- manager is the person responsible for the day-to-day management of the service.
Other key definitions can be found in the Glossary.
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