http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/21/section/33/notesNursery schoolsFamily supportLegislationChildmindingChild careExplanatory Notes to Childcare Act 2006Department for Education and SkillsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2014-03-05
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Commentary on Sections and Schedules<CitationSubRef id="c00196" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/21/part/3" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-3">Part 3</CitationSubRef> – Regulation of Provision of Childcare in England<CitationSubRef id="c00208" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/21/part/3/part/2" CitationRef="c00196" SectionRef="part-3-part-2">Chapter 2</CitationSubRef>: Regulation of Early Years Provision
<CitationSubRef id="c00210" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2006/21/section/33" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-33">Section 33</CitationSubRef>: Requirement to register: early years childminders
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Section 33 prohibits a person from providing early years childminding unless he is registered in the early years register. Early years childminding is early years provision provided on domestic premises for reward where there are no more than three people providing the care or assisting with its provision (see section 96(4) and (5)).
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Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to exempt certain persons from the requirement to be registered. This power may be used to exempt, for example, nannies and babysitters.
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Subsection (4) sets out what happens where a person who should be registered as an early years childminder under subsection (1) fails to register. In such cases the Chief Inspector may serve an enforcement notice on that person and that person may then be prosecuted if they continue to childmind without being registered (see subsection (7)). The notice will stay in effect until revoked by the Chief Inspector.