The Blog

A brief list of resources to help you protect your childcare setting from the cyber threats during Coronaviris

I penned a blog article back in 2012 as part of our celebrations for Ayrmer Software’s tenth anniversary. Having launched CoB in December 2015, we’re just over three year in and wanted to share some of our experiences launching The Childcare on-line Booking (CoB) system.

Today’s world is busy, hectic and we have so many things to think about: children’s breakfast club, after school club, holiday camps etc., Have we booked our childcare via The Childcare on-line Booking (CoB) system?

A few years ago I was looking for answers and turned to a business coach for support. He helped us learn about "emotional intelligence" amongst other things that has stood us in good stead ever since and believe you me, when you work in our sector you need emotional intelligence in bucket loads!

Today is Safer Internet Day 2019; celebrated globally with the theme: Together for a better internet.

Commercial cyber security is an essential element of business today; do not take our word for it; Nominet have published a review showing 4 in 10 of businesses have experienced a cyber breach.

I used to get Christmas presents related to my work, so I ended up with some really useless stuff! You know the sort of thing mouse mats that you can put family photos in basically things that you would never take into the office. There was one exception to this truly classic pile of junk, a book called e-tales two in which there was a classic.

Since I first started looking at #GDPR last summer, I have been on a huge learning curve & have written this updated article that highlights the key points; to paraphrase GDPR "the sheer number of legal provisions makes it difficult to keep track"!

Some common sense advice about Making Tax Digital (MTD) that comes into force next April (2019) for wrap around child care providers.

We have recently changed our business model and believe in complete transparency, so here is an explanation of how we charge for our out of school booking system designed for childcare providers. It is designed to be simple & fair for all,enabling wrap-around clubs of all sizes to benefit from a booking system designed specifically for breakfast, after school and holiday clubs with over 7 years experience working with clubs and 14 years working with academies.