Early Years Provider Meeting Tuesday 3 rd March 2020 Agenda Agenda - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Early Years Provider Meeting

Tuesday 3rd March 2020

Agenda

Agenda

Early Years structure changes

• Early Years move from Early Help to Education and Learning-

01.03.2020

• Closer working with education colleagues supporting children

to ‘Get the Best Start in Life’

New Structure

Assistant Director Education and Learning Early Years Service Lead

Quality and Development Team

Team Leader 0.97 FTE 2 x QD Officers 1.81 FTE Outreach Worker (2 year olds) 0.6 FTE 1 x Early Language Consultant 0.6 FTE

Child Development Centre

Manager 1FTE Team Leader 0.93 FTE CDC Officers 4.75 FTE Administrator 0.81 FTE

Business Support Team and Family Information Service

2 X Early Help Officers 2 FTE Admin Officer1 FTE Early Education Support officer 0.6 FTE 2 x Family Information Officer 1.28FTE

OFSTED Updates

• Teaching and learning focus
• Challenge for older and more able children
• Quality of interactions with children
• Professional development

Bracknell Forest’s Family Services Directory & SEND Local Offer

Family Information Service & Local Offer

• FIS are responsible for ensuring that information

about registered childcare and SEND provisions within BFC are publicly available and up to date.

• We are also responsible for managing The Family

Services Directory (FSD) & SEND Local Offer (LO) website which is the online information hub for families and professionals.

Family Information Service & Local Offer

• FSD - Not just childcare and holiday clubs - family support,

parenting, childcare funding, school/ nursery admissions, leisure, EAL families / new to area who might need extra support to access services.

• The LO contains information about local and national SEND

services and supports as well as step by step guides to the processes and pathways through which they are accessed. We also offer a brokerage service to help families find the right services, support and childcare to meet their child’s need.

Increasing awareness

• A recent survey indicated that many families are still unaware
• f this online resource and our service.
• Promotion is key – we rely on promotion & signposting from

Schools, Social Care teams, EY professionals, GPs and other professionals who work with families.

• Please remember we are here to help. Feel free to signpost

parents to us or contact us yourselves.

Provider Updates

• We will be sending out an update reminder next week
• Please also review your Local Offer
• For those who have yet to complete their Local Offer – please

feel free to ask us for help. Most of the content will already be somewhere in your existing policies – it’s not as dauting as it looks.

• The FSD Jobs Page – this is now linked to the

BFC jobs page, so will receive far more views.

Useful contacts and webpages

• Family Services Directory:
• www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/localdirectory
• Family Information Service: 01344 353133
• Email: fis@bracknell-forest.gov.uk
• Top return in a google search for

‘Bracknell Local Offer’ or ‘Bracknell Family Service Directory’

“Free early education for disadvantaged two year olds was first piloted in 2006. The offer aims to improve disadvantaged children's social and cognitive outcomes so that by the age of five they are as ready as their more advantaged peers to start and fully benefit from school”. –DFE 2011

• Eligibility Criteria
• Income Support
• income based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• income related Employment and Support Allowance

(ESA)

• Universal Credit if you and your partner have a

combined income from work of less than £15,400 a year after tax

• tax credits and you have an annual income of under

£16,190 before tax

• the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• support through part 6 of the Immigration and

Asylum Act

• the Working Tax Credit 4 week run on (the payment

you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit) The eligibility criteria has been extended to include:

• children of Zambrano Carers
• children of families with no recourse to public funds

with a right to remain in the UK on grounds of private/family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights;

• children of a subset of failed asylum seekers

(supported under section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 ‘the 1999 Act’). A child can also get free early education and childcare if any of the following apply:

• they’re looked after by a local council
• they have a current statement of special education

needs (SEN) or an education, health and care (EHC) plan

• they get Disability Living Allowance
• they’ve left care under a special

guardianship order, child arrangements order

• r

adoption order

Two Year old Funding

https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/children-and-family- services/childcare/free-places-2-year-olds

Danielle Jones

(Outreach Worker for 2 year olds) Danielle.jones@Bracknell-forest.gov.uk 01344 352648 07876450835 (Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays)

Website updates

• Promotion of self service
• We will build on the information and email links when new

items are added https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/children-and-family- services/childcare https://www.bracknell- forest.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/attendance- guidance-for-early-years-foundation-stage.pdf

• 2020-21 Funding Rates
• Indicative rates for 2020-21 were sent via portal on 19/12/19

and have now been confirmed and start from 01/04/2020. The base rate has increased:

2019 20 hourly rate 2020 21 hourly rate

2 year olds £5.46 £5.54 £4.39 3 & 4 year olds £4.31

2020-21 Funding Rates

• The £0.14 per hour quality supplement has been awarded to

all providers who hold relevant level 5 or 6 EY qualifications

• The deprivation supplement has been calculated using

postcodes of funded children during 2019. 3 level £0.13, £0.26

• r £0.39 per hour
• Have you reviewed your business model?
• Do you need to adjust your chargeable hours and/or

additional charges?

SEN Funding

• https://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/children-and-family-services/childcare/funding-

information-early-years-providers/special-education-needs-inclusion-and-disability-access- funding

• Funding is part of Early Education funding
• Agreed by a panel
• CDC make no decisions
• Applications will come directly to EHBS

Universal credit

https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/

Networking break