The Nursery Education (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These regulations revoke and replace without substantive change the Nursery Education (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/1971) made on 8th August 1997 with respect to nursery education in England. They do so in order to remove the possibility of confusion arising from the existence of another set of Regulations of the same title (S.I. 1997/1954) made on 2nd August 1997 in respect of nursery education in Wales.

The effect of these regulations is to amend, in relation to England, the Nursery Education Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2086, “the principal Regulations”), as previously amended by the Nursery Education (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3117).

The principal effects of these amendments are, in respect of the provision of nursery education after 1st September 1997: to make separate provision for the determination of grant in respect of nursery provision in England; to make different provision for the dermination of grant as between providers of nursery education (other than authorities and local education authorities) dependent on whether the child in respect of whom grant is claimed resides in one of the local government areas listed in the Schedule to these Regulations or does not; to disapply, as respects England, the condition in regulation 5 of the principal Regulations; and to extend, as respects inspection reports on nursery education provided at premises in England, from 15 to 25 days the period within which the report of an inspection of funded nursery education is to be made.