The Child Minding and Day Care Exceptions (Wales) Order 2010

PART 2 Child minding exceptions

2.  A person who looks after a child under the age of eight on domestic premises for reward does not act as a child minder for the purposes of Part 2 of the 2010 Measure in the circumstances described in the following articles 3 to 7.

3.—(1) A person looking after a child does not act as a child minder if that person—

(i) is a parent, or a relative of the child; or,

(ii) is a foster parent for the child.

(2) In this article “foster parent” (“rhiant maeth”) includes a person with whom a child has been placed by a local authority or by a voluntary organisation or a person who fosters a child privately.

4.  A person does not act as a child minder where the period, or the total of the periods, in any one day in which the person looks after children does not exceed two hours.

5.—(1) A person who is employed —

(a) (i) to look after a child or sibling group for parents (“the first parents”), or

(ii) to look after a second child or sibling group for parents (“the second parents”) in addition to the children looked after for the first parents, and

(b) who looks after the children concerned wholly or mainly in the first or second parents' own home or homes,

does not act as a child minder.

(2) In this article—

(a) “employed” (“cael ei gyflogi”) means employed either under a contract of employment or under a contract for services;

(b) “parent” (“rhiant”) includes a person who is a relative of the child;

(c) “sibling group” (“grŵ p o siblingiaid”) includes half-brothers and half-sisters.

6.  A person does not act as a child minder where the person only begins to look after the child in the period between 6pm on any one day and finishes looking after the child by 2am the following day.

7.—(1) A person does not act as a child minder where the person looks after a child or children in the course of friendship with the parents of that child or children and where no payment is made for the service.

(2) In this article “payment” (“taliad”) means a payment of money or money’s worth but does not include the provision of goods or services.