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Research looking at whether, on average, bigger childcare providers deliver childcare more cheaply.
An explanation of what happens to those judged inadequate on the Early Years Register and those not meeting registration requirements on the Childcare Register.
Field experiment randomly offers mothers of young children a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, both or nothing
Sign in and use your childcare provider account if you’ve signed up to receive Tax-Free Childcare payments from parents.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Childcare service.
This guidance is for Ofsted inspectors carrying out inspections of providers that are only registered on either or both parts of the Childcare Register.
Find out how you can still register for childcare with Ofsted if you do not meet the requirements of being a childminder, nanny, nursery or other daycare.
How to register as a childminder or nanny: the Ofsted Childcare Register, the Early Years Register, who can register, how to apply.
Information for providers and managers on the use of surveillance, including CCTV, in their residential childcare settings and how Ofsted will evaluate its use.
Statistics from Ofsted for early years and childcare.
These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.
Findings from the 2021 survey of parents on childcare and early years.
Includes registering as a childcare provider
Student Finance England (SFE) have made it easier for childcare providers to get Childcare Grant payments.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2023.
Management information aggregating registered childcare providers and inspections and their outcomes.
HMRC carried out 2 surveys to learn how COVID-19 affected demand for Tax-Free Childcare in late 2020 and in 2021.
How Ofsted inspects childcare and early years, including the education inspection framework, deferring inspections and safeguarding.
Findings of the 2011 survey from the childcare and early years survey of parents series.
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