The Childcare (Early Years Register) Regulations 2008

Regulations 3(1) and 4(1)

SCHEDULE 1 Applications for registration: early years childminders

PART 1 Prescribed requirements for registration

Requirements relating to the applicant

1.  The applicant is an individual who is suitable to provide early years childminding.

2.  The applicant is to have the charge of the early years childminding.

3.  The applicant has provided an application for an enhanced criminal record certificate in respect of themselves to the Chief Inspector(1).

4.  The applicant will secure that the proposed early years childminding meets the EYFS learning and development requirements.

5.  The applicant will comply with the EYFS welfare requirements.

6.  The applicant has an appropriate first aid qualification.

7.  The applicant has carried out an assessment to identify any risks to the health or safety of children for whom early years childminding is to be provided, arising from—

(a) the relevant premises (including the means of access to and exit from those premises),

(b) any equipment there, and

(c) the activities to be provided there.

Requirements relating to other persons

8.  Every person (other than the applicant) who is to care for children for whom the early years childminding is provided is suitable to care for young children(2).

9.  An application for an enhanced criminal record certificate is provided to the Chief Inspector in respect of every person mentioned in paragraph 8.

10.—(1) Every person (other than a person mentioned in paragraph 8) who has attained the age of 16 and who—

(a) lives on the relevant premises, or

(b) works on the relevant premises,

is suitable to be in regular contact with young children.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b)—

(a) a person who works on the relevant premises includes a person who works on a voluntary basis, and

(b) a person is not to be treated as working on the relevant premises if that person only works on the relevant premises at times when early years childminding is not being provided.

11.  An application for an enhanced criminal record certificate is provided to the Chief Inspector in respect of every person mentioned in paragraph 10(1).

PART 2 Prescribed information about prescribed matters

Information relating to the applicant

12.  The applicant’s full name (and any alias and former name), date of birth, address and telephone number.

13.  The following information about the applicant’s criminal convictions and cautions—

(a) the date of the offence,

(b) the nature of the offence,

(c) the place at which the offence was committed, and

(d) either—

(i) the name of the court by or before which the applicant was convicted, the date of the conviction and the penalty imposed, or

(ii) the date of the caution.

14.  The following information about any appropriate first aid qualification obtained by the applicant—

(a) the name or type of the qualification,

(b) the name of the organisation which awarded the qualification,

(c) the date on which the qualification was obtained, and

(d) if the qualification expires on a particular date, that date.

15.  The following information about any qualification obtained (other than an appropriate first aid qualification) or training undertaken by the applicant which is relevant to the question of whether the applicant is suitable to provide early years childminding—

(a) the name or type of the qualification or training,

(b) the subjects studied,

(c) any mark or grade achieved,

(d) the name of the organisation which awarded the qualification or provided the training,

(e) the date on which the qualification was obtained or the training undertaken, and

(f) the length of any course undertaken as part of the qualification or training.

16.—(1) The following information about the applicant’s employment history—

(a) the nature of any employment undertaken, the dates during which it was undertaken and the name and address of the employer,

(b) the nature of any work undertaken on a self-employed basis, the dates during which and place at which it was undertaken, and

(c) an explanation of the reason for any period unaccounted for under paragraph (a) or (b).

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(a), “employment” includes work undertaken on a voluntary basis (and “employer” is to be read accordingly).

17.  The names and addresses of two referees for the applicant who are not relatives of the applicant.

Information relating to other persons

18.  The full name (and any alias and former name), date of birth and address of every person who is to care for the children for whom the early years childminding is to be provided.

19.—(1) The full name (and any alias and former name), date of birth and address of every person (other than a person mentioned in paragraph 18) who has attained the age of 16 and who works on the relevant premises.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) a person who works on the relevant premises includes a person who works on a voluntary basis, and

(b) a person is not to be treated as working on the relevant premises if that person only works on the relevant premises at times when the early years childminding is not provided.

20.  The full name (and any alias and former name) and date of birth of every person who has attained the age of 16 and who lives on the relevant premises.

Information relating to the early years childminding

21.  The following information about the early years childminding which the applicant proposes to provide—

(a) the address of the relevant premises,

(b) the days on which, and hours during which, it is to be provided, and

(c) the number of children for whom it is to be provided, and their ages.

22.  If the applicant is to have the care of any children (including the applicant’s own) other than children for whom the early years childminding is to be provided, on the relevant premises, at times when that childminding is to be provided, the number of those children, and their ages.

(1)

For the definition of “the Chief Inspector” see section 98(1) of the Childcare Act 2006, as amended by paragraph 117 of Schedule 14 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).

(2)

See section 19 of the Childcare Act 2006 for the meaning of “young child”.