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Find out how to pay an Ofsted invoice in relation to your childcare business or children's social care service.
Factsheet about registering school-based provision of childcare with Ofsted.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2019.
Contact your local council to find a registered childminder - Family Information Service, early years education, childcare and family support in your area
Use form CA9176 to apply for Class 3 National Insurance credits from 6 April 2011, if you've provided care for a child aged under 12.
Includes help when having a baby or adopting, child benefit and tax credits, support for childcare
Impact of COVID-19 School Closure Policies on Global Gender Gaps in Business Outcomes
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2020.
Statistics on the characteristics of early years providers in England.
Provisional data for the period 1 January – 31 March 2017 and revised data for the period 1 September – 31 December 2016.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2023.
This report explored whether it would be possible to conduct research with childcare providers to collect historical childcare market information.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 December 2019.
Nannies registered with Ofsted must follow these requirements.
How to get a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if you want to look after children for a living: who needs a check, what it costs and how long it takes.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes and movement in the childcare sector as at 31 December 2016.
This report details the names and addresses for childminders and childcare on domestic premises, where the provider has consented for their name and address to be published on the Ofsted inspection report website.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2020
Research investigating how parents make decisions about childcare and the impact on uptake of government childcare offers.
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