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Supporting Partnerships All LAs Need To Know About CMAs Sarah Read, Early Years Manager Action for Children 6 November, 2017 Aims of the session Offer support to Local Authorities interested in setting up as a CMA or wishing to work

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Supporting Partnerships – All LAs Need To Know About CMAs

Sarah Read, Early Years Manager Action for Children

6 November, 2017

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–Offer support to Local Authorities interested in setting up as a CMA or wishing to work with CMAs in their local area –Offer support to those considering setting up as an agency, either now or in the future –Share experiences and best practices of existing childminder agencies –Access to the most up-to-date information on childminder agencies

Aims of the session

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  • 10 Childminder Agencies registered with Ofsted
  • Up to 36 childminders registered with each agency
  • More going through the registration process
  • 30 hours – childminders vital to this agenda
  • Partnerships are key

The current picture

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St Bede Childminder Agency The Northumberland Church of England Academy Trio Childcare Connections Ltd Daryel Care Leap Ahead – Achieving for Children City Childcare Childminding Agency Rutland Early Years Agency Limited @Home Childcare Suffolk Childcare Agency Dandelions – Northfleet Nursery School

The 10 Childminder Agencies

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Local Authorities establishing a CMA

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–As an ‘in-house model’ –Working with other organisations to set up a CMA in a local area:

  • Schools
  • Maintained Nursery Schools
  • Training providers
  • Childminders
  • Other early years provision/organisations

How?

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–Trading Arm –Business plan, SWOT analysis –Staffing –Application / registration –Consultation with childminders –Events for childminders –Provision for Ofsted registered childminders

Considerations for Local Authorities

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How Local Authorities can work with Childminder Agencies in their area

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–Quality of provision –Safeguarding –Sufficiency –Funded places

Working with Agencies in your Local Authority

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–Mechanisms to provide checks for prospective childminders registering with an agency –Systems to find out which childminders are registering with the agency and in which areas –Regular dialogue to ensure that a two-way sharing of information is maintained –Looking ahead – regular dialogue to establish how an agency in your area could support delivery of the 30 hours

What do you need to have in place?

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–What are the benefits and challenges for Local Authorities when working in partnership with Childminder Agencies? –What are the benefits and challenges for Local Authorities when establishing themselves as a Childminder Agency?

Discussion

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How CMAs currently work with Local Authorities Rutland Early Years

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@Home Child ldcare Chil ildminder Agency: : Partn tnership working wit ith LAs

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Background

  • Registered as a CMA nearly 2 years ago
  • Flexible home childcare provision since 2005
  • Quality home-based childcare for all families
  • Training provision
  • Social enterprise
  • Cover Notts, Derby, Sheffield & Leicestershire areas
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Working in partnership with Nottinghamshire

  • Increase the number of childminders able to provide funded

places

  • Regular quality improvement and assurance of childminders

to help improve outcomes for children and close the gap

  • Register more childminders to improve sufficiency in target

areas

  • Key partner in early innovator bid for the 30 hours – local

focus is flexibility and parental engagement

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How do we add value to Local Authorities

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What are we doing as a CMA?

  • Start-up support with the registration process from

start to finish – all under one-roof approach

  • Robust procedure for registering childminders
  • Sharing of information strengthens safeguarding
  • Provide regular quality improvement support to help

preserve the high standards of childcare within the LAs

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What are we doing as a CMA?

  • Regular quality assurance inspections
  • Increasing the number of childminders available to

provide funded places

  • Increasing the number of Good and, eventually,

Outstanding childminders

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What are we doing as a CMA?

  • Equipping CMs with the knowledge and skills
  • Regular CPD training
  • Funded Level 2/3 qualification training
  • Mentoring: each CM has a dedicated SAM (Support,

Advice & Mentoring)

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What are we doing as a CMA?

  • Become a childminder recruitment campaigns in hot

spot areas

  • Beginning to join-up with schools
  • Marketing and advertising to help fill CMs’ vacancies
  • Business support e.g. employing assistants
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Partnership

  • At the top table with the LA:

– Attend strategic meetings – Share information – Analyse data – Invited to be on interview panels Feel valued: Genuine Partnership

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Achievements

  • Registered 38 childminders
  • Can now register some childminders in 2 – 3 months start to finish
  • Effective judgement from our Ofsted inspection
  • Proving and refining our CMA model for effectiveness, quality and

growth

  • Beginning to be able to afford to employ staff
  • Beginning to offer career progression opportunities for

childminders

  • Authentic partnership with some LAs
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Challenges

  • Being a pioneer
  • Lack of funding
  • Conditions are not in place to incentivise childminders to join

agencies

  • Some LAs are still not signposting us
  • Lack of understanding amongst existing Ofsted registered

childminders

  • Admin intensive
  • Cannot be our sole focus as a business
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What’s next?

  • Continue to review and refine our model
  • Diversify
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Q & A

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Developing a Statement of Purpose

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When setting up a Childminder Agency your statement of purpose should contain: –Aims and objectives –Organisational structure –Arrangements for registering providers –Training and monitoring providers –Ensuring provision is of a sufficient standard

Setting up a CMA

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–Communication –Safeguarding –Enforcement action –Alternative arrangements for when

  • ne of it’s registered providers is

unable to provide childcare –Additional services or facilities

  • ffered

Setting up a CMA

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Action for Children are continuing to support CMAs

  • Information events
  • Bespoke visits
  • Registration support
  • Telephone and email support
  • Toolkit

Support Available

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  • Supporting new organisations to become ready to

register with Ofsted

  • Supporting existing CMAs:
  • Forum
  • Regular meetings
  • Marketing toolkit
  • Ongoing telephone and email support

Support Available

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Toolkit

https://foundationyears.org.uk/child-minders/

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Contact Us: E: CMA@actionforchildren.org.uk D: 07734 165642 W: Foundationyears.org.uk/child-minders

Further Information

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Childminder/CMA and school partnerships: –Roadshow type events across the country –Bespoke visits to schools –Bespoke visits to childminder groups –Production of a ‘wrap-around toolkit’ –Advisory board –2 national ‘partnership working’ events – October/November – London and York

Additional Partnership Working

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–Working with existing Hubs to extend and develop partnership working with childminders –Re-work of the Hubs toolkit

Continued Learning from Hubs

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