Increasing Childcare Take-up – BME
The Government's objective is to extend the reach and take-up of good quality childcare and early years provision among low income families; focusing on families with a disabled child, and black and minority ethnic (BME) families.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has created a number of approaches to enable local authorities to improve take-up, including the provision of communication resources, support for Children's Information Services, and improving the take-up of the childcare element of Working Tax Credit. The Early Support Programme provides multi-agency support to very young disabled children and their families.
Resources and documents
Examples of work being undertaken by local authorities in this area
are grouped under the following headings:
Update on progress in increasing childcare take-up (BME) -
local authority presentations
Improving
communication and engagement with parents
Supporting
employment
Improving
workforce diversity and supporting skill development
A focused project to support take up of childcare among black and minority
ethnic families
Six local authorities in different parts of the country with an ethnically
diverse population are participating in a project that is aimed at not only
identifying good practice, but at developing a more strategic authority-wide
approach to this issue.
The local authorities are: the London Borough of Camden, the London Borough of
Tower Hamlets, Bradford City Council, Leicester City Council, Manchester City
Council, and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council.
Additional documents
Summary
of benchmarking surveys
This document is a summary of a survey sent to all 6 authorities capturing
their existing practice on work with BME communities and childcare. It asks
about local population, data, take up of childcare, and outreach
initiatives.
This page was last updated on 30 April 2008
