MinderHQ for Northern Ireland

Built around your Trust, not bolted on

Registered with your HSC Trust's Early Years Team? MinderHQ treats Northern Ireland's rules as its own — NICSS done properly on your invoices, NI's ratio rules (including next year's change) and a register your Trust will recognise.

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£19.99/month, no per-child fees
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Built in, not bolted on

What MinderHQ does the Northern Irish way

Your Trust, on the record

Belfast, Northern, South Eastern, Southern or Western — tell MinderHQ your Trust, your registration certificate number and the capacity conditions on it, and the whole app respects them.

NICSS invoices with all five parts in place

Sibling discounts applied first, then the 15% reduction — and every invoice shows the child's name, their Tax-Free Childcare number, the amount before, the reduction and the new amount payable. A monthly claim summary rounds it off.

Ratio rules that already know about November

Today's limits today, and the 9 November 2026 limits from the day they begin — with Northern Ireland's own school-age rules built in, so you're never caught between old and new.

Adults present and visitors, logged

A day-by-day note of the adults in your setting and a simple visitor log beside your register — the record your Trust's Early Years Team expects to see.

The Trust inspection pack

Registers, accident and medication records with parent signatures, consents, risk assessment and policy review dates, certificate and insurance — grouped and ready for your annual inspection.

A journal on the six Areas of Learning

CCEA's six Areas of Learning, clearly badged non-statutory — a proper record of each child's learning without pretending Northern Ireland has a curriculum it doesn't.

See it, not just read it

This is the Northern Ireland version — really

Straight screenshots from a Northern Irelandworkspace — the same screens you'd see on day one.

MinderHQ Today board for a Northern Ireland childminder with HSC Trust certificate ratio meters and the day's register — The Today board counts against your HSC Trust certificate — under 12 months, under compulsory school age and under 12 — using NI's school-age rules, not England's.

Adults present and visitor register on the MinderHQ Today board for Northern Ireland — The adults-present and visitor register your Trust expects, kept day by day — with vetting evidence noted, not other people's disclosures stored.

Monthly NICSS claim summary in MinderHQ showing per-child reductions against TFC numbers — Invoices apply the NICSS reduction automatically, and a click builds the monthly per-child claim summary — TFC numbers, reductions and new payable — ready for the Early Years portal.

Record your Trust, certificate number and the exact conditions on your registration — they cap the ratio warnings, and the compliance wallet speaks AccessNI, not DBS.

Trust inspection pack generated by MinderHQ for a Northern Ireland childminder — One click assembles the Trust inspection pack — registration details, registers, records and policies in one printable document.

Guides for Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland: NICSS on your invoices, and the adults & visitor registerApply the 15% NICSS reduction properly — sibling discounts first, all five required elements on every invoice.Read the guide

Which nation is my MinderHQ set up for?One app, four rulebooks: how MinderHQ knows you work to your HSC Trust, not Ofsted.Read the guide

The rest of the job

And everything every MinderHQ childminder gets: the two-tap diary and register, accident forms done while the plaster's still fresh, parent messaging, a done-for-you website with your Trust registration front and centre, and the parent app.

One flat price — £19.99/month, first month free
Kept in the UK, kept careful — encryption and photo consents
Leave anytime and take everything — full export, photos included
Onboarding is a phone call with a human, not a manual

Try the version built for Northern Ireland — on us

A free first month, then £19.99/month, and a real person to set you up. Not for you? Cancel before your first bill and take your records with you — no hard feelings.

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