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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke and re-enact with modifications the Nursery Education (England) Regulations 2000. The Regulations:

(a)

change the interval within which the Chief Inspector must inspect relevant nursery education (as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 26 to the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) from 4 years to within 3 years of the year of the last inspection;

(b)

introduce a new requirement for the responsible person, where they have been notified of an inspection themselves, to notify the local education authority and parents;

(c)

re-enact the requirement for the Chief Inspector to send prescribed persons a copy of the report;

(d)

introduce a new requirement for the responsible person to send parents a copy of the report; and

(e)

introduce a new requirement for the responsible person to provide any person with a copy of the report, if asked, on payment of a fee not exceeding the cost of supply.