• Find an early years and childcare inspection report
• Understanding an early years and childcare inspection report
• Types of early years and childcare Ofsted inspects
• Inspecting early years and childcare
• Types of early years and childcare Ofsted regulates
• Caring for children in their own home
• Regulating early years and childcare; applying to be a provider
  • About the two early years and childcare registers
  • Registration not required for early years and childcare
  • Before registration as an early years and childcare provider
  • Registering as an early years and childcare provider
  • After registration as an early years and childcare provider
• Safeguarding children
• Children's centres
• About our survey reports
• How to complain

Registration not required for early years and childcare

Most childcare providers caring for children aged under eight must register with us; however, some providers do not have to.

Our Registration not required factsheet explains which types of providers do not have to register with us.

If you do not need to register with us because you are exempt from doing so, you may still be able to register on the voluntary part of the Childcare Register.