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# The Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2025/1261 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
2025 No. 1287
CHILDCARE, ENGLAND
LOCAL AUTHORITIES, ENGLAND
The Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made
9th December 2025
Laid before Parliament
10th December 2025
Coming into force
31st December 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1) and (2)(b) and 4(2)(c) of the Childcare Act 2016.

## 1 Citation, commencement and extent {#regulation-1}

These Regulations—
(a) may be cited as the Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025,
(b) come into force on 31st December 2025, and
(c) extend to England and Wales.

## 2 Amendment of the Childcare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Inspection Outcomes) (England) Regulations 2025 {#regulation-2}

(1) The Childcare (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Inspection Outcomes) (England) Regulations 2025 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In regulation 5 (amendment of the Childcare (Free of Charge for Working Parents) (England) Regulations 2022), for paragraph (4) substitute—
(4) In regulation 44 (duty to secure childcare available free of charge), in paragraph (3), omit sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) and the em dash which precedes them.
.