Early years and childcare
Early
years funding reform: PVI Cost Analysis Guide and free entitlement survey
results
We have published a guide on undertaking analysis of the cost of delivering
the free entitlement in PVI settings. We are also publishing the
findings from a survey into local free entitlement funding arrangements
and School Forums.
Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme aims to support parents from pregnancy onwards. The vision is to create a joined-up system of health, family support, childcare and education services so that all children get the best start possible in the vital early years.
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Ten
Year Strategy for Childcare
The strategy focuses on choice, availability, quality and affordability in childcare.
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Childcare
Act 2006
The act takes forward key commitments from the Ten Year Strategy to help transform childcare and early years services in England.
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Sure
Start
The programme aims to increase the availability of childcare for all, improve children's health and emotional development and provide a range of support to parents.
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Assessing
and securing sufficient childcare
From April 2008 local authorities will have a new duty to secure sufficient childcare, which follows on from the childcare sufficiency assessments they are carrying out in their local areas.
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Childcare
Implementation Project
This is a collaborative project working with a group of local authorities to determine effective and innovative approaches to delivering the Ten Year Strategy.
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Early
Support - services for disabled children in early years
This is the central government programme for achieving better coordinated, family-focused services for very young disabled children and their families.
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Affordable
childcare campaign (DCSF Local Authority website)
We have launched a communications campaign to help local authorities promote formal childcare settings to parents.
Choice
for Parents, the Best Start for Children: a Ten Year Strategy for Childcare
(2004)
Choice
for parents, the best start for children: making it happen (2006)
Five
Year Strategy for Children and Learners (2004)
Th five-year strategy set an expectation that primary schools should offer
childcare between 8am and 6pm, 48 weeks a year.
National
Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services(2004)
Letter
on Sure Start Children's Centres, Extended Schools and
Childcare (February 2007)
Children's
Services: The Childcare Market (2006)
Listening
to Young Children (Open University Press, 2003)
Dedicated
Schools Grant - FAQs and Case Study - December 2006
Early years providers and their local authority partners will be
interested in these FAQs which support the free entitlement for three and
four-year-olds.
This page was last updated on 16 August 2007
