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Everyone who works with children must have an enhanced DBS check. Employers and childminders are responsible for keeping these up to date.
Find information to help you register as a childcare provider, such as:
You need to register as a childminder if you want to provide childcare from your own home. This also applies if you work with up to 2 other people from a home that's not the home of the child or children.
Find out more about becoming a childminder and running your business from GOV.UK.
Find out about becoming a nanny and running your business from GOV.UK.
You don't have to register with Ofsted to be a nanny or home child carer, but parents may be able to get help paying for childcare if you do register.
Read Ofsted's quick guide to registering as a nanny.
Find out more about registering as an early years childcare provider in this video from Ofsted:
As a local authority, we have a duty to make sure there are enough childcare places in Dorset.
Read our latest Childcare Sufficiency Report to find out how we make sure the supply of childcare places matches the demand.
Read what we're doing as the result of feedback about our Childcare Sufficiency Assessment.