Market Analysis – Mapping Supply and Demand

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.

This facilitated 60-minute session for Local Authority officers builds and consolidates on the Let’s Talk About session earlier in the month, and will hold space for shared reflection on evidence gathering around flexible approaches, further sharing of ideas and what’s working well and problem solving around testing approaches. Please note that the slides used for this “Let’s Be Confident” session are the same as those used in the 'Let’s Talk About' session.

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.