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If you pay for childcare while you go to work, Universal Credit can pay some of your childcare costs.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Ofsted guides for parents about different types of early years settings and how they are inspected.
Advice, examples and resources to help early years providers run a sustainable childcare business.
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
This Young Lives impact case study details the role of early child development in informing policy and making it a priority
Contact your local council to find a registered childminder - Family Information Service, early years education, childcare and family support in your area
Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation
Guidance for childcare providers on when you must register with Ofsted or a childminder agency, when you cannot register, and when you do not have to.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Childcare service.
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.
Applications open on 2nd January for the first wave of new government-funded childcare offers.
Government publishes new data showing 195,355 children benefitting from government-funded childcare for 2-year-olds in successful April launch.
Findings from a field experiment to understand the impact of free childcare on the mother’s business development and labour supply
More nursery and early years places and spaces to be delivered, with an online childcare eligibility checker to give information about new support.
Findings from the 2021 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
This guidance is for Ofsted inspectors carrying out inspections of providers that are only registered on either or both parts of the Childcare Register.
Findings from the 2022 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
Search for Ofsted inspection reports for childminders and childcare providers, schools, colleges, further education providers, children and families services
Wave 3 of research with childcare providers in relation to coronavirus (COVID-19).
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