Part 12: Miscellaneous Section 238: Childcare: number of providers
This section amends sections 96(5) and (9) of the Childcare Act 2006, substituting the word "three" with "four". This increases the number of other childminders or assistants that childminders can work with from two to three (four people in total). It also increases, from four to five, the minimum number of people that must work together to provide ‘childcare on domestic premises’ (provision that would be childminding but for the operation of sections 96(5) and (9) of the Childcare Act 2006).