{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006-childcare-assessments-regulations-2007/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006-childcare-assessments-regulations-2007/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Act 2006 (Childcare Assessments) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2006-childcare-assessments-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Consultation",
  "text": "The following persons and descriptions of persons are prescribed for the purposes of section 11(6)(a) of the Act—\n(a) the Local Safeguarding Children Board established for the area of the authority;\n(b) the Secretary of State, in relation to his functions under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973;\n(c) the authority’s relevant partners within the meaning of section 10(4) of the Children Act 2004;\n(d) such—\n(i) children,\n(ii) parents,\n(iii) childcare providers,\n(iv) employers,\n(v) governing bodies of maintained schools and proprietors of schools other than maintained schools,\n(vi) governing bodies of institutions within the further education sector or the higher education sector within the meaning of section 91 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992,\n(vii) neighbouring authorities, and\n(viii) organisations representing the interests of persons mentioned in paragraphs (i) to (iv), or other organisations with an interest in the provision of childcare,\nas the authority consider appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Local Safeguarding Children Boards are established under section 13 of the Children Act 2004 (c.31)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c.50. Section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19) and amended by Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 1989 (c.38) and (in relation to Scotland) section 47(1) of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c.19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c.31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1992 c.13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/979",
      "affecting_title": "The Alternative Provision Academies and 16 to 19 Academies (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) (England) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/463/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:04:38.630486+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}