{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-providers-information-advice-and-training-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-providers-information-advice-and-training-regulations-2014/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2319",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Providers (Information, Advice and Training) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-providers-information-advice-and-training-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Subject matter of information, advice and training",
  "text": "(1) The matters referred to in regulation 2 are—\n(a) the effective safeguarding and promotion of children’s welfare and compliance with statutory requirements, guidance and procedures for the protection of children;\n(b) meeting the needs of persons described in paragraph (2) in relation to the provision of suitable childcare;\n(c) meeting the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, within the meaning given by section 39 of the Act.\n(2) The persons referred to in regulation 3(1)(b) are—\n(a) children with a disability within the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Equality Act 2010;\n(b) children with special educational needs within the meaning given by section 20(1) of the Children and Families Act 2014;\n(c) looked after children within the meaning given by section 22(1) of the Children Act 1989;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) those using, or intending to use, childcare in respect of which the childcare costs element of universal credit (being an amount included in the calculation of an award of universal credit under regulation 31 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013) is payable;\n(f) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2)(d) omitted (1.1.2026) by virtue of The Childcare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Inspection Outcomes) (England) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1261), regs. 1(b), 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 24.9.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2014 c.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1989 c.41; section 22(1) was amended by paragraph 19 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government Act 2000 (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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2013/376."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2319/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:25.808739+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."
}