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
- Those who provide care for children of two sets of parents wholly ormainly in either or both of the sets of parents' home
- Those operating from a particular premises for 14 days or less in anyyear
- Those who provide up to two after-school activities, such as ahomework club.
Childminders will be affected by changes relating to whether they workwith other people. Those who work with three or more people on domesticpremises, either as assistants or fellow childminders, will be classedas a setting.
Ofsted has also clarified the position for schools that provide care forchildren aged between birth to three.
Full guidance is contained in the 'Registration of childcare providersfrom September 2008' at www.ofsted.gov.uk.
