The Nursery Education Regulations 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations prescribe matters relating to the making of grants in respect of nursery education and the inspection of funded nursery education for the purposes of the Nursery Education and Grant-maintained Schools Act 1996. They prescribe—

(a) the time before which education provided for a child who does not attend school is nursery education and the time after which education provided for a child is nursery education (regulation 2);

(b) the authorities and persons to whom grants in respect of nursery education may be made (regulation 3);

(c) the method of calculating the amount of grant to be paid in respect of the provision of nursery education (regulation 4);

(d) a relevant condition (for the purposes of section 1(b) of the Act) failure to comply with which may lead to a refusal to provide (or continue to provide) a nursery education place at a school maintained by a local education authority or at a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school (regulation 5);

(e) information relating to a claim for (or the adjudication of a claim for) child benefit, as information constituting “social security information” for the purposes of Schedule 2 to the Act; and

(f) the period within which a report of an inspection of funded nursery education is to be made and the authorities and persons to whom copies of such a report must be sent (regulation 7).