Important Updates for Wraparound MI Submissions
The LA Management Information (MI) template submission deadline is Friday 5th December. Please ensure you quality assure your provider responses in the MI template before submission. Guidance on how you to do this can be found here.
Once this is complete, please email childcareworks@mottmac.com to confirm that you have completed your quality assurance and saved the final MI template version in your LA folder on the CW portal. To aid submission, you can email the helpdesk using the following wording:
“[LA name] confirm we have copied and pasted the provider data from the feeder file to the template, and quality assured this provider data. I confirm the final MI template is saved in our LA folder on SharePoint.”
The above is important to ensure your return is logged as being received by the deadline.
Top tips for Wraparound place creation
Childcare Works has pulled together top tips, ideas, and suggestions to support continued Wraparound place creation. These were developed during our work supporting place creation with a number of local authorities throughout the summer term 2025. The document is designed as a checklist to help you generate new ideas for activities which you might not yet have considered. You will also find suggestions for stakeholder messaging when considering how to communicate and engage with the different needs and contexts of parents, school staff, and providers.
You can access these via the Childcare Works LAB
Regional Meetings placeholders
As we look forward to the 2026 February Regionals, we are happy to confirm the dates for all regions, please see these below. The booking form will go live next week so please note the times as a placeholder.
Location | Date | Venue |
Leeds | Tuesday 3rd February 2026 | Hilton City Centre, Leeds LS1 4BX |
Manchester | Wednesday 4th February 2026 | Radisson Park Inn, Manchester M4 4EW |
London (1) | Thursday 5th February 2026 | Coram Campus, London WC1N 1AZ |
London (2) | Tuesday 10th February 2026 | Coram Campus, London WC1N 1AZ |
Birmingham | Wednesday 11th February 2026 | Park Regis Hotel Birmingham B15 1DT |
Exeter | Thursday 12th February 2026 | Sandy Park, Exeter, EX2 7NN |
Cluster meetings
You can find the dates and times for December and January cluster meetings via the Childcare Works Events page. Here you will be able to sign up using the registration links and, as always, if you are unable to attend your usual cluster, please sign up to attend an alternative meeting.
If there are any topics that you would like to discuss in the meeting, or if you have any other questions about the cluster meetings, please contact your CW adviser.