Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 482
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND
The Day Care and Child Minding (Inspections) (Prescribed Matters) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
4th March 2005
Laid before Parliament
10th March 2005
Coming into force
1st April 2005
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by section 79Q of the Children Act 1989(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Skills hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Day Care and Child Minding (Inspections) (Prescribed Matters) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.
Intervals for inspection
2. In regulation 3 of the Day Care and Child Minding (Inspections) (Prescribed Matters) (England) Regulations 2001(2) there shall be substituted for the words “2 years” the words “within 3 years of the last inspection”.
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
4th March 2005
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Day Care and Child Minding (Inspections) (Prescribed Matters) (England) Regulations 2001 by changing the interval at which child minding or day care is to be inspected from 2 years to within 3 years of the last inspection.
1989 c. 41; section 79Q was inserted by section 79(1) of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14).
S.I. 2001/2745.