Explanatory note

The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009 (“the 2009 Regulations”) prescribe the individual child information which early years providers can be required to provide to the Secretary of State and their local authority. These Regulations amend the 2009 Regulations to apply those requirements to childminder agencies. Childminder agencies were introduced by the Children and Families Act 2014 and are persons who are able to register childminders and other providers of childcare on domestic premises for the purposes of Part 3 of the Childcare Act 2006.

These Regulations also amend the 2009 Regulations so as to prescribe the individual child information which early years providers who are registered with a childminder agency must provide to that agency, at its request.

No impact assessment has been produced for this instrument because no significant impact on business, civil society organisations or the public sector is foreseen.