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Form to send to Ofsted to cancel your registration.
Requirements you must meet if you are an Ofsted-registered daycare provider on the voluntary part of the Childcare Register.
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.
You will need your Government Gateway user ID in order to use certain Ofsted services.
Ofsted’s position on Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks for childcare providers who register with Ofsted.
Requirements you must meet if you are a childminder registered with Ofsted on the voluntary part of the Childcare Register.
Guidance for applicants on what to expect from Ofsted during the childcare application review process.
Guidance on registering and inspecting school-based early years and childcare provision with Ofsted.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for childminders.
Guidance for providers of childcare on domestic and non-domestic premises who want to expand their registered setting into new premises.
Find out how you can still register with Ofsted if you provide childcare immediately before or after school for less than 2 hours in a day.
You will not be able to reset your Government Gateway credentials without the email address you used to create your account.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for those wishing to become childcare providers.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can object if Ofsted intends to take steps that will affect their application or registration.
How a prospective or registered childcare provider can appeal if Ofsted plans to take steps that will affect their registration.
Application forms to complete to register with Ofsted.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
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