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Focus on Enforcement review: make your views heard about regulation

The Government is urging the early years sector to respond to an online consultation which will inform its review of how regulation for childcare providers is enforced.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills wants to hear from all types of providers, as well as parents, who have ideas and examples about how the current enforcement of regulation could be improved.

They are also asked to suggest how regulators can better help providers comply with the law, and to highlight where regulation is working well, so that good practice can be replicated across the sector.

The aim is to drive up standards while removing complicated bureaucratic requirements which result in practitioners spending less time with children, and to provide better protection for children and greater clarity for providers.

The review will complement the work of the Government’s commission on childcare which is looking at how to give childcare providers more flexibility over how they operate and reduce the costs of childcare for working families.

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