NOTE TO CARERS:

We want to clarify why your care-4 carer account with www.childcareplaces.co.uk was displaying the name “Nick McAdams”.

Some people have since contacted us and NCMA because they weren’t sure what this account was. When a childcarer signs up to register vacancies on www.childcareplaces.co.uk, we automatically create a care-4 carer account for them as parents using the site pay using care-4 childcare vouchers. You should have received a welcome pack through the post with your username and explaining about care-4 and how it works, so you should be familiar with care-4.

We had been contacted by some childcarers who were concerned because they had noticed a ‘child’ named Nick McAdams appear on their account and were worried that this was a fraudulent entry.

The entry “Nick McAdams” is a sample name which was entered on childcarer accounts by care-4 to enable care-4 to administer the site (each account needs to have at least one name listed).

Our email yesterday was a genuine email, intended to reassure you that the entry on your account was not fraudulent, but simply a sample name entered for care-4’s administration purposes.

However, we realise that this may have caused confusion and so, in the future, the sample listing will be given the ‘name’ Sample Child.

We are sorry for any confusion and I hope that this clarifies the situation.