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Factsheet about registering school-based provision of childcare with Ofsted.
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.
Find out when you must apply to register if you want to set up a nursery, or other daycare organisation for children.
Advice for state-funded school admission authorities, independent schools, local authorities and parents.
Find out how to register with Ofsted as a nursery or other daycare, and what you will need to tell us about.
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 the requirements for the registration of independent schools, also known as private schools.
Guidance for Ofsted staff on registering childcare providers and childminder agencies.
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.
Information on Ofsted inspections for independent schools that are not members of associations.
Guidance for school leaders and induction tutors on setting up training based on the early career framework.
How to request and manage school-led initial teacher training (ITT) places for School Direct.
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.
How Ofsted regulates applicants and childcare services that are only on the Childcare Register.
How Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) work together to inspect association independent schools with an early years registration.
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