starting up a business, need advice

shellnapier

ok so hears the score m n my pal want ti go into business togther, childminding. however we want to rent a premises and do it there. we have been reading up, and know alot about it as her mum isa childminder. and we dont know if it a "childminder" we want to be. we hand the idea of retting a premises. and carring for wroking mums childern who are 5 and under. so there fore, we can have our own childern , and also we dont have to do school runs. we want to focus mainly on interacting witht the childern, we want to proivide more than a "baby sitter" more like doing activites with childern. however we dont really want to do a drop in chreche, we still want to know. we have so many chidlern each day, and for how long for etc. and with the chilldmimder rules, you can only hav 3 under 5s. to one adult,however that , with our own kids, would only let us have 4 a day max. wich really wont be finalcy viable, and not enough to valdiate our own premises.. so would we be more of a day nursery? ave been trying to find out on here, but i am gettn more and more confused?? please help

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