24 May Early Years and Wraparound Regional – Manchester

Date: 24/05/2024
Time: All day
Location: Park Inn, Manchester City Centre, 4 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M4 4EW

We look forward to welcoming you to face-to-face regional meetings in May 2024. These meetings aim to bring you together with peers from across all local authorities, to network, benchmark your delivery and share success and challenge. Regional meetings are designed to share the latest DfE and Childcare Works information, and to focus on planning and delivery for wraparound childcare and the expanded early years entitlements. The audience for these meetings is wraparound and early years leads. We are inviting LAs to register on a first come, first served basis. Places are limited in the first instance to two per local authority. This will be reviewed against demand.

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Date: 07/10/2024
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Online, via Microsoft Teams
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Date: 09/10/2024
Time: 10.00 - 11:30
Location: Online, via Microsoft Teams
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14 October Sufficiency Teach-in: Session 3

Date: 14/10/2024
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Location: Online, via Microsoft Teams
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16 October Let’s Talk About… Promotion and Marketing to Stimulate Wraparound Demand

Date: 16/10/2024
Time: 10:00- 11:30
Location: Online, via Microsoft Teams
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22 October Sufficiency Teach-in: Session 4

Date: 22/10/2024
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Location: Online, via Microsoft Teams
The Sufficiency ‘teach-ins’ are aimed at introducing sufficiency assessment and market management/action planning. Sessions 2 – 4 also aim to help LAs understand how best to approach supply and demand mapping ahead of the September 2025 roll-out milestone.

23 October Childcare Works National Event – Wraparound childcare and expanding the early years entitlements: Route map to 2025

Date: 23/10/2024
Time: 09:15- 15:30
Location: Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG
The meeting will focus on the planning and implementation of the expanded early years entitlements and wraparound childcare.