Nikki Walters and Sue Wilson
Service Managers, 0-5 Learning
Introduction
More Affordable Childcare
The Government plans to:
• Help families meet the cost of childcare
• Increase the amount of affordable
provisions
• Give parents the right information so they
can make informed choices about
childcare
Local Authority Duties
Early education places for two, three and
four year olds
• Universal 15 hours for 3 and 4 year olds
• September 2013 – 20% of two year olds,
eligibility based on government criteria
• September 2014 – extended to 40% most
disadvantaged families
Quality
• Local Authorities no longer to have separate quality
assessment
• 2 year olds funded in good or outstanding provision
• 3 and 4 year olds funded in good, outstanding or
satisfactory / requiring improvement provision
• Fund new providers registered with Ofsted until their
first full Ofsted inspection judgement is published
• Secure alternative provision and withdraw funding, as
soon as is practical, for children who are already
receiving their funded entitlement at a provider when it
is rated inadequate by Ofsted.
Quality – Refocusing the duty
• Secure information, advice and guidance
for providers judged good or outstanding
by Ofsted if the provider requests it
• Secure information, advice and training to
meet the needs of providers judged less
than good by Ofsted
Priority Providers
Priority 1
• Inadequate Ofsted judgements for all providers
• Satisfactory /requires improvement Ofsted judgements for
providers in receipt of FEEE
Priority 2
• Newly registered providers
• Change of circumstances
Priority 3
• Satisfactory/requires improvement providers not in receipt of
FEEE
Priority 4
• Good or outstanding Ofsted judgement for all provisions
Nikki Walters and Sue Wilson
Service Managers, 0-5 Learning
Early Help, First Response:
Children’s Duty April 2013
First Response will provide
a centralised consistent
response for help.
How do people access early
help services?
A single referral form:
‘a request for service form’
http://www.leics.gov.uk/commonassessment
framework
Priority 3 referrals
Response
needed with little
or no service coordination
Locality hubs
needing service
co-ordination
Family Steps
Locality
Service
Co-ordinator
Children’s
Centres
Core Locality
Hubs
Supporting
Leicestershire's
Families
Youth
Service
Strengthening the
Family Service
Locality Service Co-ordinators
Graham Walker
Blaby, Oadby &
Wigston
07919 305609
Lindsay Hall
Hinckley & Bosworth
07966 111020
Tina Pollard
North West Leics
07966 111013
Vacancy
Harborough
07966 111019
Becky Flower
Loughborough
07966 111004
Shabiha Master
Charnwood
07720 669135
Victoria Lickman
Melton Mowbray
07720 669137
Jo Fisher
Information Management and
Development Team Manager
2 Year Old Update
Allocation - September 2013
District
NWL
Charnwood
Harborough
Letters Allocated
138
235
58
Blaby/O&W
114
Hinckley & Bosworth
94
56
Melton
Summer Take
up
52
65
2
Criteria for settings
Settings already on the scheme
– Ofsted Good or Outstanding
– CQIP 2c or above
You can remain on the scheme.
Registered settings wanting to join the scheme
– Ofsted Good or Outstanding
Newly registered settings
– Join at point of registration
Changes in Quality
When a provider receives an Ofsted ‘
‘Requires Improvement’ or ‘Inadequate’:
• Keep existing children / safeguarding
• No funding for new children / sufficiency
• What actions changed the Ofsted grade
• Ability to improve quality
The Children
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We will need to track the children
Linked to the children centre programme
IA may contact you
Start tracking by filling in Early Assessment
Review (EAR) on the individual progress
tracker
• This will support the 2 year old progress
check that is statutory
Expansion of the Offer
From September 2014, the offer will reach up to 40% of
children.
Government Criteria;
• They meet the eligibility criteria used for free school meals
• Their family receives Working Tax Credits and have an annual
income of no more than £16,190.00 per year
• They have a current statement of SEN of an educational health care
plan
• They attract disability living allowance
• They are looked after by the LA
• They have left care through special guardianship or an adoption
order
The Way Forward
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Further mapping of places
Identify future training
Additional criteria
Evaluate the process to make
necessary changes
Jane Norman / Jodi Smith
Business Support Team Manager /
Senior Business Support Officer
Changes to the FEEE guidance
– September 2013
Thank you to those providers who gave feedback
on the consultation on our amended FEEE
Guidance during late August.
The new FEEE Guidance is based on the DfE’s
Early Education and Statutory Guidance for Local
Authorities September 2013, and it now includes
information on:
– eligible 2 year olds accessing FEEE places
– how quality will be measured
– what providers need to do to be able to offer the funding
This requires providers to:
• be registered with Ofsted and subsequently
have a Certificate of Registration
• agree to the terms and conditions set out in
the Provider Agreement
• provide services in line with
Leicestershire’s local offer of flexibility ie 3
x 5 or 5 x 3
The new guidance defines the ages of the children you can
care for depending on your Ofsted quality, as previously
mentioned. It also now has a separate section for administering the FEEE
for eligible 2 year olds.
Main variances being:
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parents need to have their eligibility confirmed by this office
both documents will contain a Child’s Unique Reference Number (CURN)
providers need to enter the CURN on the CURN column identified on the
Headcount form
only one payment will be made for 2 year olds - at the published final
payment date
payments for 2 year olds are based on a base rate of £4.86, with no
additional supplements
we recommend that parents claim their 2 year old funding at one provider,
not two as in 3 & 4 year olds
Stretched Offer
This allows parents to have their 570 hours of funding over more than 38
weeks of the year, but for less than 15 hours per week.
This could mean:
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settings who are open all year, divide parent’s invoices (where additional
hours are taken) over 12 monthly payments. This will take into account the
free hours and means that parents can spread the cost of childcare more
evenly.
parents using some of their free hours during school closure time.
We will be placing a Stretched Offer Toolkit on the website which will show
you how to complete your headcount form in the normal way. You may
then bank the hours the parent has requested to be free hours for use in
school closure time.
Speak to your Monitoring Support Officer for more information!
The Guidance is not concerned with how
providers operate their private business,
including charges for provision over and above
the child’s FEEE place.
However, parents taking just the funded hours
should not be expected to pay any charges –
there should be no conditions attached to
accessing the free hours.
Provider Agreements
To be signed and returned by 27th September 2013.
Electronic signatures will enable you to send them back via
email. PA’s require that:
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for 2 year olds, an Ofsted grade of Good or Outstanding
is maintained
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for 3 & 4 year olds, an Ofsted grade of:
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Good or Outstanding is maintained
Satisfactory/Requiring Improvement is improved upon
following the advice received from Ofsted
Inadequate is enhanced to the grade of
Satisfactory/Requiring Improvement at the time of the next
Ofsted inspection.
Other policy documents
under review
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De-validation policy – previously developed to give
providers the opportunity to raise their quality and continue
with the funding
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Complaints Policy for Providers
Appeals Policy for providers
The above two policies are being developed for providers who are refused
funding to deliver free places and will be available on the internet very
shortly.
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Complaints Policy for Parents – under review.
Terry Bannard
Monitoring Support Officer
Changes to the FEEE reports
The Monitoring Report
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Changes have been made to our monitoring report and we hope to
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implement this fully in the Autumn Term 2013.
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The scoring will be more focused in relation to the local authorities
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priorities for ensuring the funding is administered correctly.
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We will also look to monitor funding for 2 year olds using the same
form.
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The report is now split into 3 priority areas as follows:
Other policy documents
under review
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Changes have been made to our monitoring report and
we hope to implement this fully in the Autumn Term
2013.
The scoring will be more focused in relation to the local
authorities priorities for ensuring funding is administered
correctly.
We will look to monitor the 2 year old funding with the
same form.
The report is now split into 3 priority areas:
Priority Areas:
The 1st Priority Area is around evidence checking.
Your Monitoring Support Officer will be looking at the
following information:
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Birth certificates
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PSOU’s
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Registers
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Attendance logs
Providers will be able to achieve a maximum of 10 points for
each of the above sections, totalling 40 points.
Priority Areas:
The 2nd Priority Area looks at charging and information to
parents/carers. Your Monitoring Support Officer will be
looking at the following information:
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Invoicing
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Pricing structure
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Information settings provide on FEEE for parents and carers
Providers will be able to achieve a maximum of 5 points for
each of the above sections, totalling 15 points.
Priority Areas:
The 3rd Priority Area looks at any additional requirements.
Your Monitoring Support Officer will be looking at the
following information:
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Ofsted certificate
Information on opening times and session times for parents
and carers
Retention of records
Providers will be able to achieve a maximum of 4 points for
each of the above sections, totalling 12 points.
Jane Norman / Jodi Smith
Business Support Team Manager /
Senior Business Support Officer
Communication
Communications Survey
• Many thanks to everyone for completing
this Survey
• Deprivation supplement we know, caused
a massive headache for many providers.
• Needed to get feedback on what you
thought about the way we communicated
your Indicative Budget to you.
The results from the Survey:
How clear do you feel the recent
information around your indicative budget
was?
• Very Clear
• Clear
• Not very clear
54 settings
275 settings
44 settings
The results from the Survey:
Did you feel you were given enough time to
reflect on the information received and
implement the changes?
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Yes
329 settings
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No
44 settings
88% of providers felt time wasn’t a problem, and
12% felt they didn’t have enough time / notification
The results from the Survey:
If you had to contact the Service for clarity
around the indicative budgets was the support
you received:
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Good
Satisfactory
Poor
182 settings
174 settings
16 settings
58 settings actually stated they hadn’t needed to contact
the service, and as you couldn’t move on and submit
your data without ticking a box, this figure was probably
not accurate. Please accept my sincere apologies ….
The results from the Survey:
How would you prefer us to contact you with FEEE
information, for example changes to the guidance or
your FEEE rate?
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Emails from INFORM
FEEE web resource page
Partnership Plus
Provider update email
Update from your MSO
Other
292 settings
8 settings
1 setting
60 settings
8 settings
4 settings
78% of settings preferred their funding
information to be delivered directly via email
using INFORM. Some settings commented that
this was because they didn’t want important
information coming across with other more
general information.
16% preferred it via the twice monthly update
email, for the same reason.
Question – How many people have a mobile
phone on them?
Looking to offer a Text Alert service to advise you on
your mobile phone when there’s important information
waiting for you on Inform.
Used by schools, doctors and dentists etc as a reminder
of appointments.
As childcare providers, your time is at a premium and we
feel it would be helpful to use Text Alerts, via your mobile
phone, as a reminder to let you know when there’s an
important piece of information waiting for you.
What do you think?
Nikki Walters and Sue Wilson
Service Managers, 0-5 Learning
Networking, Questions and
Thank you!