The Childcare (General Childcare Register) Regulations 2008

PART 1 General

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare (General Childcare Register) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st September 2008.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Childcare Act 2006;

“appropriate first aid qualification” means a qualification in first aid appropriate for the treatment of the children for whom childcare is provided;

“enhanced criminal record certificate” means an enhanced criminal record certificate issued under section 113B of the Police Act 1997(1);

“harm” has the same meaning as in section 31(9) of the Children Act 1989(2);

“home child-carer” means an individual who provides early years childminding or later years childminding—

(a)

for a child or children for particular parents, wholly or mainly in the home of the parents, or

(b)

for a child or children for particular parents (“the first parents”) and, in addition, for a child or children for different parents (“the second parents”), wholly or mainly in the home of the first parents or the second parents or in both homes;

“parent” includes any person who has parental responsibility for a child or has care of a child;

“relevant premises” means, in relation to the provision of childcare by a person, the premises or part of the premises on which that childcare is provided or will be provided.

Revocation of the Childcare (Voluntary Registration) Regulations 2007

3.  The Childcare (Voluntary Registration) Regulations 2007(3) are revoked.

(1)

1997 c.50. Section 113B was inserted by section 163(2) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c.15) and was amended by paragraph 14 of Schedule 9 to the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c.47), paragraph 149 of Schedule 16 to the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c.52) and sections 79(1) and 80 of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 14).

(2)

1989 c.41. The definition was amended by section 120 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c.38).

(3)

S.I. 2007/730.