Early Years and Childcare: Local Authority Developing Practice - Update on Progress in Increasing Childcare Take-up (BME)

These PowerPoint presentations communicate the progress and learning made by local authorities using innovative practices to increase the take-up of early years and childcare provision among black and minority ethnic (BME) groups.

To help you select the presentation most appropriate to your needs, we provide brief details of the contents here:
 
Local Authority Visits: Pat Joseph
This presentation summarises early lessons from the six local authorities who are engaged in increasing awareness and take-up of childcare among BME families.

Leicester City Council: Widening BME Participation
This presentation describes how Leicester City Council have undertaken targeted home visits in two Super Output Areas of the city to promote awareness and take-up of free early year places for 3 and 4 year olds. 121 families were contacted and 52 registered for their free nursery place.
 
Rotherham City Council: Childcare Taster Initiative
This presentation describes how Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council expanded its childcare taster initiative to offer six free sessions in four areas of the authority with high numbers of BME families. Activity has included close work with providers, and partners outreach activity with parents. 30 one-session vouchers have been redeemed by BME parents/carers and 19 six- session vouchers.
 
London Borough of Tower Hamlets: Early Years Information Strategy
This presentation describes how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets has provided nursery management software (Abacus) to a wide range of settings to enable the authority to obtain accurate and timely data on places, take-up and ethnic origin. 38 settings have signed up to Abacus out of a total of 63.
 
Manchester City Council: Identification Strategy for BME families of Manchester
This presentation explores how Manchester City Council has focused on improving information about childcare and take-up of childcare element of Working Tax Credit among the Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Somali communities. There has been direct engagement with 105 families and take-up by 15 families of the early years entitlement.
 
London Borough of Camden: Community Advocates
This presentation describes how the London Borough of Camden has developed community advocates to make contact and increase childcare take-up among the Somali, Congolese and Traveller communities. A DVD is being produced to help improve information in recognition that information and engagement strategies need to be long-term and tailored to individual communities.
 
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
This presentation explores the Foundation Stage profile and the low take-up of free places by 3- and 4-year-olds