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Why exempt the two-hour carers?

With reference to all the recent discussion and issues concerned with child protection and Criminal Records Bureau checks, why is it still possible under Ofsted for people in England to look after other people's children for under two hours a day and not have to be registered - and therefore not checked by anybody? Surely this is in direct contradiction to the latest child protection and safety checks. After all, a lot could happen to a child in two hours and over a period of days or weeks.

Surely this is in direct contradiction to the latest child protection and safety checks. After all, a lot could happen to a child in two hours and over a period of days or weeks.

Who made this decision and who do we write to with regard to changing this? All people who are unrelated to the children they are looking after for reward, however few hours it is, should be registered. What a loophole for people to abuse children.

Jacqueline Thurbon. Abridge, Essex

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