Nottinghamshire Families Information Service

Nottinghamshire Families Information Service (FIS) provides information about local services, support and activities, including childcare, for parents and carers of children and young people up to the age of 20 years.

Nottinghamshire FIS is for children, young people and their families, including those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

We can search your local area to help you to find:

• childminders*
• pre-school playgroups*
• day nurseries*
• nurseries attached to schools
• breakfast clubs*
• out of school clubs*
• holiday playschemes*
• sure start children's centres
• parent and toddler groups.

*Ofsted registered childcare

We can tell you about the help available to cover the costs of childcare, ask us about:

• working tax credit
• our own childcare support scheme
• employer supported childcare.

We can also help if you:

• want to become a registered childminder
• want to set up a new day care facility
• are an employer who needs to address the childcare needs of your employees
• would like signposted to other services for children, young people and families, or support services for disabled children, young people and their families.

How to contact us

We are open from 8.30 am until 5.30 pm Monday to Thursday, and until 4.30 pm on Fridays. An answerphone service is available at all other times.

You can call us on 0800 781 2168 or look us up on the internet at www.childcarelink.gov.uk/notts.

You can email us at fis@nottscc.gov.uk

Childcare providers - updating your details online

If you're a childminder with any vacancy changes you can complete the online childminder vacancy form or if you're a daycare setting with any vacancy changes you can complete the online daycare vacancy form.

Tell us what you think

If you have contacted the Families Information Service in the last 3 months we would really like to hear from you. Please fill in an evaluation form about the service and / or the information you recieved, please click here to fill in an online form.  This is to help us improve our service and we welcome your comments, good, bad or indifferent.  The information you provide will be used for our own monitoring purposes only.