Hear from Barnsley’s Employees in the Childcare Sector
Barnsley local authority’s recruitment and retention Task and Finish group has created five Youtube videos as part of a package to support recruitment and retention in the childcare sector. Watch them by clicking the links below: Lauren the Early Years Apprentice Kimberley the Early Years Practitioner Kate the Portage Practitioner Gaynor the Home Based Childminder […]
Childcare Works – Webinar Summary (Summer and Autumn 2024)
Missed a webinar? This summary document includes links to resources including recordings and slides – a great way to recap on any content you may have missed, all in one place!
Let’s Talk About… Testing and Gathering Evidence to Test Flexible Ways of Providing Wraparound Childcare
This 90-minute session for Local Authority officers will build on previous learning and discussions in summer term 2024 with a focus on what works, how do we know this and how can we use the learning to grow the programme.
Let’s Talk About… Engaging Schools in Sufficiency Planning for Early Years
A 60-minute session for officers responsible for childcare market management and the engagement of schools in early years sufficiency planning. Schools will be an essential partner in developing, delivering or supporting new early years places in some areas in 2025. Increasing capacity, lowering age ranges or setting up new provision in available school space may be key activity in sufficiency action plan. Engaging school leaders, MATs and academies will be key to the success of this strategy.
Developing Early Career Pathways Webinar
This 60-minute session, delivered in conjunction with Bristol LA, provided Local Authorities with an overview on how to create early years career pathways within their organisations, and the benefits this can have for recruitment, retention, and training programmes. Whilst the focus is on Early Years, Wraparound Leads may also find it useful to watch.
Let’s Be Confident… Promotion and Marketing to Stimulate Wraparound Demand
This 60-minute session is for officers who are working with schools and providers to deliver the National Wraparound Childcare Programme in England. It aimed to expand on knowledge acquired in the Let’s Talk About Session help on 16 October 2024 and help LAs who are less confident in marketing to ensure they are fully equipped to support the providers they are working with.
DfE Local Authority Webinar on Early Years Places – Supply and Demand Analysis
Following the publication of the DfE’s assessment of local supply and demand for Early Years places, a webinar was held with Local Authorities on Friday 25 October 2024, which you can view here.
Let’s Talk About… Maximising Provider Capacity in Preparation for 2025
This recorded session is for officers responsible for and working in childcare market management and early years sufficiency planning. Sufficiency action plans may require the creation of a small number of places in a certain area or may involve finding additional places for a specific age group.
‘Back to Basics’ Childcare Sufficiency (Session 3): Mapping Demand
In response to requests from Local Authority colleagues, this webinar provided a comprehensive ‘back to basics’ review of the Childcare Sufficiency Duty, specifically mapping demand.