Mr. Toby Wolfe:

As with the regulations for centre-based services, the Child Care Act provides the overall framework that gives the power to the Minister to write the regulations. The Child Care Act sets some constraints on the sort of objectives that must be met. In the same way, there will be specific regulations developed under the provisions of the primary legislation, but there will be secondary regulations. It is a clear commitment that the Minister set out in the national action plan for childminding that the specific regulations for childminders will be different, and appropriate to the home and family setting that childminders work in.