Regulation 4 Information, advice and training

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 4(3)(c) words substituted by Special Educational Needs (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) 2014 art. 24
reg. 4(2)(d) words inserted by Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2013 reg. 48(a)
reg. 4(3)(aa) inserted by Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2013 reg. 48(b)

(1)

The matters referred to in regulation 3(1) are—

(a)

registration procedures under Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Part 3 (regulation and provision of childcare in England) of the Act and the prescribed requirements for registration^f1;

(b)

information on the significance of registration under Chapter 4 (voluntary registration) of Part 3 of the Act;

(c)

business planning, financial management and marketing;

(d)

meeting the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage;

(e)

meeting the requirements of regulations under sections 59(2) and 67(2) of the Act (regulations governing activities of providers of childcare);

(f)

meeting the requirements of the equality enactments;

(g)

meeting the needs of persons described in paragraph (2) in relation to the provision of suitable childcare;

(h)

effective safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare and compliance with statutory requirements, guidance and procedures for the protection of children; and

(i)

the use of the Common Assessment Framework^f2.

(2)

The persons referred to in paragraph (1)(g) are—

(a)

disabled children;

(b)

children with special educational needs;

(c)

looked after children within the meaning given in section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989^f3;

(d)

those using, or intending to use, childcare in respect of which the child care element of the working tax credit is payable; and

(e)

other children who are at risk of social exclusion by virtue of unemployment, poverty, homelessness, geographical remoteness, ill health, family breakdown or other economic, cultural or social factors.

(3)

In this regulation—

(a)

“child care element”, in relation to working tax credit, is to be read in accordance with section 12 of the Tax Credits Act 2002^f4;

(b)

“disabled child” means a child who has a disability^f5 for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and

(c)

“special educational needs” has the meaning in section 312(1) of the Education Act 1996^f6.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See sections 35(3), 36(3), 54(3), 55(3), 62(3) and 63(4) of the Act as to the prescribed requirements for registration.
f2: The Common Assessment Framework is a nationally standardised assessment of the needs of children and is set out in Every Child Matters: Change for Children, published by the Department for Education and Skills with reference number DfES-1110-2004. The Common Assessment Framework for children and young people: Practitioners’ guide was published by the Department for Education and Skills in April 2006, ISBN 1 84478-707-9.
f3: 1989 c. 41; section 22(1) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 5 to the Children Act 1989 (c.22), section 2(2) of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (c.35) and section 116(2) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c.38).
f4: 2002 c. 21.
f5: See section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, that Act. Schedule 1 was amended by section 18 of the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c.13).
f6: 1996 c. 56. Section 312 was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 7 to the Education Act 1997 (c.44); paragraph 71 of Schedule 30 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 (c.31); paragraph 56 of Schedule 9 to the Learning and Skills Act 2000 (c.21); and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c.40).