Regulation 2 Amendment of the Education (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2007

The Education (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2007^f1 are amended as follows.

After regulation 14, insert—

“15.

Persons having access to a database established and operated by the Secretary of State under section 12 of the Children Act 2004^f2 are prescribed for the purposes of section 537A(4)(c) of the 1996 Act and section 99(4)(c) of the 2006 Act.”.

In Part 2 of the Schedule, after paragraph 11 insert—

“11A.

(1)

Where the person provides funded nursery education to the child in more than 38 weeks in the funding period, the number of hours of funded nursery education which the child receives from that person during the period starting with 1st January and ending with 31st March in the calendar year in which the information is requested.

(2)

In this paragraph “the funding period” means the period, being no longer than 12 months, of arrangements between the person providing funded nursery education and a local education authority in England under which the person provides such nursery education.”.