Childcare and education providers

Register services and meet education and childcare standards

Register as a childminder

• Become a childminder or nanny (England)
• Register as a childminder (Scotland)
• Register as a childminder (Wales)
• Register as a childminder (Northern Ireland)

Set up and manage childcare services

• Register as a childminder agency in England
• Apply to register your nursery or other daycare organisation (EYO)
• Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework
• Early years and childcare: guidance for providers

Standards and safeguarding

• Keeping children safe in education
• Check someone's criminal record as an employer
• DBS checks: guidance for employers

Run your service and manage staff

• Check an early years qualification
• Pay your childcare or social care invoice
• Being inspected as a childminder or childcare provider

Become an apprenticeship training provider

• Becoming an apprenticeship training provider
• Using the apprenticeship service as a training provider
• Apprenticeship end-point assessments
• Apply to the APAR as an apprenticeship training provider