Clause 51 - Requirement to register: later years childminders for children under eight
Childcare Bill
3:00 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister, Education; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
The amendment seeks to sharpen up the wording of the clause to ensure that when the chief inspector of schools intends to issue an enforcement notice on a child care provider because they are providing child care without having registered, the enforcement is based on evidence, not just whether it appears that someone is providing child care.
Amendment No. 62 therefore changes “may” to “must”. The amendments go together. If the evidence demonstrates that somebody is providing child care and they are not registered, the chief inspector must issue an enforcement notice that the child care provider should desist, or that the child care provider should be registered.