The Childcare (Childminder Agencies) (Registration, Inspection and Supply and Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2014

The applicant’s arrangements for registering providers

12.—(1) This paragraph applies to a person who has applied for registration as an early years childminder agency.

(2) The applicant has in place effective arrangements to assess whether a person applying for registration as an early years provider satisfies the prescribed requirements for registration under section 35 or 36 of the Act, as the case may be, and is likely to continue to do so.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the applicant’s arrangements will not be effective unless they provide—

(a) for a registration visit to the setting, and

(b) that the childminder agency will make enquiries with the following persons to inform the agency’s assessment of a person’s suitability to provide early years provision—

(i) the person’s medical practitioner;

(ii) any local authority in whose area the person has resided in the five years prior to making the application for registration;

(iii) the Chief Inspector; and

(iv) any other childminder agency with which the person has been registered.