Childcare Works Early Years and Wraparound Childcare Spring Regional Meetings 2025
Regional meetings focus on planning and delivery, and bring local authorities together to network, and to share success and challenges across the early years’ expansion and wraparound childcare. During these meetings the latest Department for Education and Childcare Works’ information is shared. You can access the slides from the Spring Regional Meetings below: […]
Creating early years capacity in preparation for September 2025
This resource was first published in May 2025. Below is a recorded information session for providers designed to highlight a few ways that additional places could be created by making changes to ratios and staffing, delivery models and/or spaces. As we head to September 2025, we are all focused on ensuring there are sufficient […]
Creating early years capacity in preparation for September 2025 – Slide Deck for LAs
This resource was first published in May 2025. A slide deck with notes for local authorities using the recorded information session content. This can be used in whole or part and has place holders for your local information to be inserted. This can be used as part of briefings, networks or as part of business […]
Childcare Works Webinar for Early Years Settings and Schools
Watch this Childcare Works session recorded on the 6th May 2025 for early years providers. This webinar was designed to introduce the new Early Years Toolkit, created specifically for providers. During the session (below) providers were introduced to: the free resources and information available to make sure your nursery, school or setting is ready for […]
Childcare Works Webinar for Wraparound Childcare Providers
Watch this Childcare Works session recorded on the 14th May 2025 was for wraparound childcare providers. This webinar was designed to introduce the guidance and information available to providers, out of school clubs or childminders – including breakfast clubs, after school clubs, holiday clubs and playschemes. The recorded webinar (below) is an opportunity for you […]
Vodcast: Early Years Funding Insights from Southampton City Council – Sufficiency
Southampton City Council years team provides insights into their early years sufficiency work. This includes how they calculate provider funding provider perspectives on Southampton’s approach to calculating funding simplifying funding administration In addition to the use of termly surveys to support sufficiency, this vodcast explores how the findings on sufficiency are disseminated and monitoring the […]
Vodcast: Early Years Funding Insights from Southampton City Council – Funding Streams
Southampton City Council’s early years team provides insights into their early years funding. This includes an overview of: their funding steams providing premises for provision in areas where it is needed incentivising providers to increase provision and quality through early years funding, for example SEND training and awareness. For more information watch the vodcast from […]
Constructs of Quality in Wraparound
This resource was first published in May 2025. This 90 minute session explored notions of quality practice in wraparound. By examining key principles of quality practice local authority officers considered how they can best use existing resources to support and encourage high quality practice across the settings they support.
Childcare Expansion Myth-buster for Providers
This resource was last updated in May 2025. This easy-to-read myth-buster has been developed to address common misconceptions around the childcare expansion. The visually optimised resource shares comprehensive and accurate information from trusted official sources that can easily be downloaded, printed and shared with staff teams, or displayed in staff rooms.