Guidance

Childcare and children's social care health declaration forms

Health declaration forms for childminders and people who work in childcare or children's social care.

From:
Ofsted
Published
3 March 2013
Last updated
1 November 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Introduction

You will need to complete a health declaration form before you register with Ofsted to look after or care for children.

Please complete a form if:

  • you’re applying to register as a childminder or childminder without domestic premises on the Early Years Register. Please select childminder on the health declaration form
  • you’re registering as the manager of childcare on domestic premises
  • you’re applying to register as a social care establishment, agency or manager
  • Ofsted has asked you to complete it because we need more information (for example, if you live with a childminder or if you own a nursery)

Find out more about how to register childcare or children’s social care.

Social care applications

From 1 April 2024 a health declaration, signed by your GP, is no longer required for children’s social care applicants. If you are a social care applicant, you must declare your current health using the children’s social care health form. You do not need to send the form to your GP as part of your application to be registered as or connected to a children’s social care provider.

If you need any help completing the form, please telephone us on 0300 123 1231 or email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.

Completing the health declaration form

All early years applicants must complete this form.

  1. Fill in section A, the relevant part of section B and the declaration.

  2. Contact your GP to fill in section C. GPs may charge a fee for doing this.

  3. Either scan or photograph the document and send with your unique reference number (URN) to enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.

Early years: health declaration form

MS Word Document, 249 KB

Early years: health declaration form

PDF, 801 KB, 16 pages

Completing the children’s social care health form

All children’s social care applicant’s must complete this form.

  1. Fill in section A, section B and the statement of self-declaration.

  2. Send the form to enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk.

Social care: health self-declaration form

MS Word Document, 229 KB

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Social care: health self declaration form

PDF, 112 KB, 8 pages


Your information

You can find information on how Ofsted handles personal information in our personal information charter.

This information remains valid for 6 months from the date of your GP’s signature (health declaration form) and/or your signature (health self-declaration form). Please send this to Ofsted without delay.

It is an offence to make a statement that you know is false or misleading as part of a registration application. Please answer this form truthfully. We will not necessarily refuse your registration based on current or previous health problems.

Updates to this page

Published 3 March 2013
Last updated 1 November 2024 show all updates

  1. Updated to include a new childcare provider type, ‘childminders without domestic premises’, following changes introduced by the Department for Education’s EYFS framework.

  2. Updated the early years and children's social care health forms.

  3. Revised the guidance for children's social care applicants. From 1 April 2024 a health declaration, signed by your GP, is no longer required for children’s social care applicants.

  4. Added a temporary social care health self-declaration form for use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  5. First published.

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