It is just over a year since we took over responsibilities for regulating and inspecting daycare and childminding in England. This includes nurseries, childminders and out-of-school clubs.
Our overall aim is to ensure that children are safe, well-cared for and engaged in meaningful activity. Our regulatory duty is to register, inspect, investigate complaints against providers and enforce necessary action.
So far we have registered 15,000 new applicants, inspected over 53,000 existing providers, investigated 6,000 complaints and enforced 100 actions.
We have absorbed over 1,400 ex-local government staff, established eight regional administrative centres and supported up to 1,200 full-and part-time home-based inspectors in this activity.
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