Daycarers in dark about new rules

Alison Mercer
Wednesday, October 3, 2001

Some providers in England have still not received their copy of the new national standards for daycare and childminding for under-eights and the accompanying guidance, even though all childcarers in England are now meant to comply with the new regime, which came into force at the beginning of September. A spokeswoman for Ofsted, which was sending out copies of the standards and guidance together to all providers, said distribution started in early July but hit problems in August when Ofsted ran out of copies of the guidance.