Policies and guidance
Introductory reading
Information for parents and carers using childcare services
Registering childcare providers from September 2008
Introductory reading about inspection
Childcare factsheets
Below are inspection factsheets only. The complete list of factsheets is under F in the Forms and guidance A-Z.
Common core skills and knowledge
Delivery of the Early Years Foundation Stage in out-of-school provision
Giving medication to children in registered childcare
Next steps: when a provider is judged inadequate or is not complying with requirements
Regulating play-based provision
Requirements for the Childcare Register: childcare providers on non-domestic or domestic premises
Requirements for the Childcare Register: childminders and home childcarers
Requirements for written documents: childminders delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Requirements of the Early Years Register
Use of assistants by childminders on the Early Years and Childcare Registers
Useful reading for self-evaluation
Conducting early years inspections
Further reading
Framework for the regulation of those on the Early Years and Childcare Registers
Using the early years evaluation schedule:
guidance for inspectors of registered early years settings required to deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage
Using existing Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks and whether to employ a person before a check