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What Tax-Free Childcare is, eligibility and how to apply
Find out when you'll be inspected by Ofsted, how to prepare, how you'll be inspected and how you'll be graded
If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
Use form CVF1 to verify your child for the childcare service.
The qualifications, experience and approval you must have to offer SIA licence-linked training courses.
You must apply to Ofsted if you want to take up a governance position in a daycare organisation, or if you start living or working in a home where daycare takes place.
Teacher Services is a free service to check the record of a teacher you employ or are considering employing.
How to find childcare, get help paying for it and what to do if your circumstances change.
How to apply and get a code for free childcare for your child aged 9 months to 4-years old if you’re working.
Lists of qualifications that meet DfE's criteria for counting in the early years foundation stage framework staff:child ratios.
Care to Learn helps pay for childcare while you're studying - how to apply, money you get, courses that qualify, eligibility
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.
Hundreds of thousands of families set to benefit as working parents of 9-month-olds can now apply for government-funded childcare for first time.
Forms for assessing your fitness or suitability to be a children's social care provider. There are separate forms for children's homes.
How to request a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a potential employee: types of DBS check, how to request a check, how much it costs, how long it takes.
How to apply for free childcare if you're working.
You must apply to register with Ofsted if you are the registered person, a registered individual or the nominated individual of a daycare.
You must tell Ofsted about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home you look after children in within 14 days. This includes children who turn 16.
Who can check your criminal record for a role, the application process and how to recognise a genuine certificate.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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