Nikki Walters and Sue Wilson Service Managers, 0-5 Learning Introduction.

Nikki Walters and Sue WilsonService 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

• 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

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 ProvidersPriority 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


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 co-

ordination

Locality hubs needing service

co-ordination

Core Locality

Hubs

Children’s Centres

Family Steps

Youth Service

Strengthening the Family Service

Locality Service Co-ordinator

Supporting Leicestershire's

Families

Locality Service Co-ordinatorsGraham Walker Blaby, Oadby &

Wigston07919 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 FisherInformation Management and Development Team Manager

2 Year Old Update

Allocation - September 2013

District Letters Allocated Summer Take up

NWL 138 52Charnwood 235 65Harborough 58Blaby/O&W 114Hinckley & Bosworth 94 2Melton 56

Criteria for settingsSettings 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 QualityWhen 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• 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 OfferFrom 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

• Further mapping of places

• Identify future training

• Additional criteria

• Evaluate the process to make necessary changes

Jane Norman / Jodi SmithBusiness 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: • 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 OfferThis 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:• 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.

To be signed and returned by 27th September 2013.

Electronic signatures will enable you to send them back via

email. PA’s require that:• for 2 year olds, an Ofsted grade of Good or Outstanding

is maintained• for 3 & 4 year olds, an Ofsted grade of:

– 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.

Provider Agreements

• De-validation policy – previously developed to give providers the opportunity to raise their quality and continue with the funding

• Complaints Policy for Providers • Appeals Policy for providersThe 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.

• Complaints Policy for Parents – under review.

Other policy documents under review

Terry BannardMonitoring Support Officer

Changes to the FEEE reports

• 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 the funding is administered correctly.

• We will also look to monitor funding for 2 year olds using the same

form.

• The report is now split into 3 priority areas as follows:

The Monitoring Report

• 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:

Other policy documents under review

The 1st Priority Area is around evidence checking.

Your Monitoring Support Officer will be looking at the

following information:

• Birth certificates

• PSOU’s

• Registers

• 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:

• Invoicing

• Pricing structure

• Information settings provide on FEEE for parents and carers



Priority Areas:

The 3rd Priority Area looks at any additional requirements.

Your Monitoring Support Officer will be looking at the

following information:• Ofsted certificate• Information on opening times and session times for parents and carers• Retention of records



Priority Areas:

Jane Norman / Jodi SmithBusiness 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 54 settings • Clear 275 settings • Not very clear 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?

• Yes 329 settings• 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:

• Good 182 settings • Satisfactory 174 settings • Poor 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 FEEEinformation, for example changes to the guidance oryour FEEE rate?

• Emails from INFORM 292 settings• FEEE web resource page 8 settings• Partnership Plus 1 setting• Provider update email 60 settings• Update from your MSO 8 settings• Other 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?


Networking, Questions and Thank you!

Nikki Walters and Sue Wilson Service Managers, 0-5 Learning Introduction.

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