Early Years Regulations
- Published: 20 June 2005
We are planning to introduce, in October 2005, six sets of regulations relating to the provision of nursery education and under 8s day care and childminding.
Two of these sets of regulations deal with Ofsted inspection arrangements, replacing existing regulations.
A further set of regulations will amend the existing national standards regulations, including new requirements on complaints handling, and enabling the publication of an addendum to the current national standards documents. A draft of this addendum is also available for comment.
Finally, three sets of regulations are about the suitability of people who wish to be involved in registered childcare, including who should be automatically disqualified from registration. The disqualification regulations will replace existing regulations.
This consultation focuses on the inspection regulations. The other regulations were the subject of consultation last year, and subsequent changes reflect the results of that consultation and more recent legislation in the Children Act 2004.
We have prepared partial assessments of the impact of these regulations and these documents are also available for comment.
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