Deputy health minister Tom McCabe announced the amnesty last week as he urged providers who have been in business since before 1 April 2003 to apply for registration to the Care Commission before this date to 'avoid prosecution in the future'.
He also confirmed that the amnesty would apply to those who submitted applications to the Commission between 1 October 2003 and now.
The Commission said that, as of 16 July, it had been working on applications from 23 childcare agencies, and the registration of nine of these had been completed.
In October 2003 the Commission told Nursery World that registration forms had been sent out to 50 agencies altogether and only five agencies had completed the registration process.
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