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Top Tips on making sure your childcare business is successful for another year

As a new year has begun, it is a good time to reflect on the year that has just gone by. By doing this, you will often find things that you need to improve or slightly tweak. Being critical about your childcare business can often help make it more successful. Here are a few top tips on helping to make sure your childcare business is a success.

Carry out an audit of your nursery – this can include varies sections, such as your finances, the learning environment, practitioners training needs and even feedback from parents. These audits will help give you a better understanding of where you may need to prioritise your work.

Hand out a parent questionnaire – Why not construct a questionnaire, containing various points you might want to get feedback on. These questionnaires are often good kept and included in your development plan.

Look back at finances – Take a moment to look at your finances and see if your childcare business has grown as well as your occupancy levels compared to previous years. Getting a better understanding about your finances can help when setting budgets.

Setting yourself business goals – Why not take this time of year to think about what it is you would like to achieve, think about this more from a business point of view, this may include looking at ways to increase occupancy or looking at ways to expand the business.

Gather feedback from your team – Gaining feedback from your team can often be forgotten when in fact this is crucial. It can help address many areas of your childcare business. Getting first-hand information from practitioners can help make the running of the nursery more successful. Use this information to create an improvement plan.

All of the above are just a few top tips that can be carried out quickly, however, the information gained can be a powerful tool.