Twinkl sells you resources. childcare.co.uk gets you found. Policy & Play gives you a colleague who does the work — planning, paperwork, compliance and ready-to-print resources, with Polly the AI doing the heavy lifting. One membership, £14.99/month.
Free to browse · cancel anytime · made for mixed-age, real-world settings
Not a pile of worksheets to dig through — the whole job of running an early years setting, in one membership.
£14.99/month · or £99/year · no VAT charged · cancel anytime
Plus an AI colleague that ties them all together — which none of them have.
A parent mentioned their little one is suddenly obsessed with bees. You want to build next week around it.
You search "bees" and get hundreds of results — most made for a Reception class of 30, half for ages that don't match your 2- and 4-year-old. You download four, two don't fit, you tweak them yourself. Still no policy, no risk assessment for the bug hunt, no EYFS links. An hour gone.
You ask: "Next week is bee week — I've got a 2 and a 4 year old. What do I need?" She pulls the right activity pack, a counting sheet, a colouring page and an outdoor bug-hunt — all EYFS-linked and age-appropriate. If the exact sheet doesn't exist, she has a new one made for your children. Ten minutes, done.
They're good at one slice each. Policy & Play is built to do the whole job.
Keep childcare.co.uk for a listing and dip into Twinkl for a bottomless catalogue if you like — but if you want one tool that actually does your day job, that's the gap we fill.
Ask in plain English. She hands you the answer, not a results page — and knows the EYFS, Ofsted and every resource here.
Not "search and hope". The exact sheet you need, built around your children's actual interests and ages.
Policies, contracts, forms, registration help and parent-conversation scripts sit right alongside the activities.
Everything a childminder needs to plan, teach and stay Ofsted-ready — in one place. Seasonal packs are added for members as they are ready.
Join Policy & Play for £14.99/monthOr pay yearly: £99/year · or try Polly free first · no VAT charged · cancel anytime