Explanatory note

These Regulations apply in relation to nursery education provision in Wales.

These Regulations largely replicate the Education (Inspection of Nursery Education) (Wales) Regulations 1999 (“the 1999 Regulations”). However, these Regulations do increase the time period prescribed for when the completion of an inspection report to 45 working days from the date on which the inspection began. The 1999 Regulations are revoked (regulation 1(3)).

These Regulations prescribe the period within which a report of an inspection of nursery education under Schedule 26 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 must be made; the authorities and persons to whom a copy of the report must be sent; and the intervals at which nursery education is to be inspected under that Schedule (regulations 3 and 4).

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.