Regulation 8 Amendments to the Childcare (General Childcare Register) Regulations 2008

(1)

Schedule 6 is amended as follows.

(2)

For paragraphs 3 and 3A substitute—

“3.

A registered person who is registered as a childminder is present at all times on the relevant premises while the childcare is being provided, except for a maximum of two hours per day if—

(a)
a childminder’s assistant is present on the relevant premises in the childminder’s absence; and

(b)
the parents of the child have given written consent to the childminder for the child to be left with the childminder’s assistant.”.

(3)

In paragraph 10—

(a)

in sub-paragraph (1) after “The registered person” insert “, the manager of the relevant premises”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (2) after “children” insert “, including the manager,”; and

(c)

in sub-paragraph (3) after “every person” insert “, including the manager,”.