Guidance

Registering school-based childcare provision

Factsheet about registering school-based provision of childcare with Ofsted.

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Registering school-based provision

Registering school-based provision

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Guidance for when a maintained or independent school must register its early years or childcare provision with Ofsted.

Published 3 August 2012
Last updated 3 February 2017 + show all updates
  1. Updated with additional text about an academy becoming a sponsored academy and an additional scenario for nursery schools.

  2. Revised version including: details of the legislative framework; and exemption from registration where the school's governing body manages the provision for two-year-olds.

  3. First published.