Childcare: regulatory changes

This consultation seeks views on proposals to:

• change the current statutory minimum staff:child ratios in England for 2-year-olds from 1:4 to 1:5
• change the early years foundation stage statutory framework (the EYFS) to be explicit that childminders can care for more than the specified maximum of three children under the age of 5 if they are caring for siblings of children they already care for, or if the childminder is caring for their own baby or child
• make the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework (EYFS) explicit that ‘adequate supervision’ while children are eating means that children must be able to see and hear an adult