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Details set out who is exempt from Ofsted registers

Ofsted has clarified that a range of childcarers will be exempt from the Early Years Register and the compulsory part of the Childcare Register.

With effect from September 1, these exemptions apply to:

- Creches which care for individual children for two hours or less eachday, even if the provision is open for longer than this; shopping orsports centre creches where care is for four hours or less each day, andparents remain on the premises

- Open access schemes for children not in the early years age group,which allows children to leave the premises unaccompanied

- Home education arrangements, where a child of compulsory school agereceives full-time education not in a school, and is partly or whollyeducated by someone who is not the child's parent

- Babysitting services - either in a hotel or guest house, caring for nomore than two clients at the same time

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