The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 1696

Children And Young Persons, England

The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

16th September 2015

Laid before Parliament

21st September 2015

Coming into force

1st January 2016

The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 99(1) and (2) and 104(2) of the Childcare Act 2006(1).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st January 2016.

Amendments to the Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009

2.  The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009(2) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

3.  In regulation 2 (Interpretation)—

(a) after the definition of “the Act” insert—

““the 2014 Regulations” means the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2014(3).”

(b) after the definition of “early years childminder agency” insert—

““early years pupil premium” has the meaning given in regulation 1 of the School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2014”

4.  In the Schedule, after paragraph 13 insert—

“14.— (1) Whether the provider is in receipt of the early years pupil premium in relation to the child.

(2) If the provider is in receipt of the early years pupil premium in relation to the child, whether, if it is known, this eligibility derives from sub-paragraph (11)(c)(i) or (ii) of regulation 16 of the 2014 Regulations.

(3) Whether the child is a looked after child aged three or four years old pursuant to sub-paragraph (14) of regulation 16 of the 2014 Regulations, if known.”.

Sam Gyimah

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Education

16th September 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) Regulations 2009 (“the 2009 Regulations”) prescribe the individual child information which early years providers can be required to provide to the Secretary of State. These Regulations amend the 2009 Regulations to introduce a requirement on all childcare providers to collect information about the early years pupil premium including whether a provider is in receipt in relation to the child and, if so, the reason why the child is eligible.

A Regulatory Triage Assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations and may be obtained from legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

2006 c.21. See section 106 for the meaning of “prescribed” and “regulations”; section 106 was amended by S.I. 2010/1080. Section 99 was amended by the Children and Families Act 2014, section 84, Schedule 4, Part 6, paragraph 63 and the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, section 75(4).

(2)

S.I. 2009/1554, amended by S.I. 2010/1836, 2012/765 and 2014/3197.

(3)

S.I. 2015/3352.