Licences and permits

The permissions a business needs before it can trade, each one tied to the law that creates it and to the body that issues it. We point at GOV.UK for fees and forms, and never copy them.

4 of 426 licences in Northern Ireland for Social care childcare

Choose from all 48 activities

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Approval of home childcarers (Northern Ireland)

To provide early years childcare, register with the Home Childcarer Approval Scheme through your local Health and Social Care Trust (HSCT)

Your council · Northern Ireland

Social care childcare

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Day care services registration (Northern Ireland)

You need to register with your local Health and Social Services Board (HSBB) if you operate a children's day care service for children under …

Your council · Northern Ireland

Social care · Social care childcare

Day care settings registration (Northern Ireland)

You need a licence to operate a day care setting in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Executive · Northern Ireland

Social care · Social care childcare

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Notification to process personal data

You must notify the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if your organisation processes personal data in an automated form

UK Government · England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Any trade

Checking approvals more broadly?

A licence is one of several things you may need before your first day of trading. The pre-trading quick check walks the registrations, insurances and approvals alongside it.

Run the pre-trading quick check

Not sure which of these apply to you?

Our guides on finding a licence and dealing with your local council walk through the questions that decide it.

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