Gastouder Direct

Strengths

• Complete and immediately accessible administration
• Pedagogical policy is well communicated to childminders and evaluated during home visits
• Minimum of 16 hours of guidance and mediation per childminder per year
• Annual risk assessment for safety and health at all locations
• Clear information provision to parents via website and agreements
• All staff and childminders hold valid Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) and are registered in the Childcare Persons Register

Violations

• In 2024: failure to conduct oral evaluations with parents (rectified after recovery offer)

Summary

Childminder agency Gastouder Direct in Tilburg was inspected on 6 October 2025 by Municipal Health Service (GGD) Hart voor Brabant. The agency has been mediating between and guiding parents and childminders since 2010. At the time of inspection, 17 children from 13 families were being cared for by 2 childminders. The agency meets all assessed quality requirements in the areas of pedagogical policy, staff, safety and health, parental rights, and childminder agency quality and duty of care. The administration was complete and immediately accessible. No violations or areas for improvement were identified during this inspection. In 2024, there was a recovery offer for the failure to conduct oral evaluations with parents; this has since been rectified. The advice to the municipality is to take no enforcement action.