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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.
Ofsted-registered childminders, nannies, nurseries and other daycare must use this service to report significant events affecting their childcare as soon as possible but always within 14 days.
If you are a childminder, you must tell Ofsted within 14 days about new people aged 16 or over who live or work in the home where you look after children. This includes children who turn 16. If you are a childminder without …
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.
Guidance to help those who work in early years settings consider their practice and to take steps to safeguard both children and adults online.
Find out whether you need to tell Ofsted about an accident, injury or illness a child suffers while in your care.
Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.
This guidance is for Ofsted inspectors carrying out inspections of providers that are only registered on either or both parts of the Childcare Register.
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 the premises you want to include in your application to register a nursery or other daycare organisation.
You must apply to Ofsted to move your setting or to include additional premises in the registration of your nursery or other daycare.
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.
This is a presentation of the pre-registration briefing for childminders.
Guidance for anyone wanting to register and operate as a childminder agency.
You must tell Ofsted when anyone aged 16 or over stops living or working with you where you look after children.
Statutory guidance on early childhood services and Sure Start children's centres.
A template that childminder agencies and local authorities can use to create an agreement around information sharing and collaborative working.
Guidance for childminder agencies on registering with Ofsted, including the process, fees and requirements. It sets out the legal background and the extent of our regulatory powers.
Briefing note for magistrates and magistrates’ courts explaining the legal framework for Ofsted’s regulation and inspection of childcare.
Logos for Sure Start children's centres and for organisations providing Sure Start services on behalf of a children’s centre.
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