Impact assessment

Childcare regulatory changes 2023: equality impact assessment

Equality analysis of how childcare regulatory changes may affect groups with protected characteristics.

From:
Department for Education
Published
12 July 2023
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Childcare regulatory changes: equality impact assessment

PDF, 419 KB, 19 pages

Details

An assessment of the effect that the following changes to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework may have on groups with protected characteristics:

  • a change to the statutory minimum staff:child ratios for 2-year-olds from 1:4 to 1:5
  • a clarification that childminders can care for more than the specified maximum of 3 young children if they are caring for siblings of children they already care for, or if the childminder is caring for their own child
  • a clarification that ‘adequate supervision’ while children are eating means children must be within sight and hearing of an adult

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Published 12 July 2023

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