The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) said last week that the Government will be closing this registration loophole during 2003 and that it was currently 'working out' how to do so. The Government's move follows a consultation in September 2001 on the registration and monitoring of independent schools.
The publication last week of Ofsted's annual report on standards and quality in education in 2001-02 revealed the scale of the problem. It said that in the past year, nursery settings in England were continuing to register 'as independent schools when they have five or more pupils of compulsory school age' and noted how 'under existing arrangements, such registration removes the protection of welfare inspection for very young children, either under the Children Act 1989 or the Care Standards Act 2000'.
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