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What rights children under the scheme have to education, and the role of councils in providing it. Information on childcare options.
Tax and reporting rules for employers providing childcare, creche
Find out what you must do to register as a childcare provider with Ofsted, as well as how you must run certain parts of your service.
Findings from the 2021 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
Care to Learn helps pay for childcare while you're studying - how to apply, money you get, courses that qualify, eligibility
Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders
Find out when you must apply to register if you want to set up a nursery, or other daycare organisation for children.
You must apply to Ofsted to move your setting or to include additional premises in the registration of your nursery or other daycare.
How to get a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if you want to look after children for a living: who needs a check, what it costs and how long it takes.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
Statistics from Ofsted for early years and childcare.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered out of school club, nursery or other type of daycare on the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.
Guidance for Ofsted staff on registering childcare providers and childminder agencies.
What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
Check if you're eligible for Tax-Free Childcare, how to apply and how to pay your childcare provider.
Findings from the January 2018 to August 2018 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
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