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Early Learning for Two Year Olds PACEY Local Awareness Events April 2013 DfE Update

Early Learning for Two Year Olds PACEY Local Awareness Events April 2013 DfE Update. Today…. What Early Learning for Two Year Olds is and why we are offering it What children will be eligible? Funding What support is DfE providing? What data tells us – nationally

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Early Learning for Two Year Olds PACEY Local Awareness Events April 2013 DfE Update

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  1. Early Learning for Two Year Olds PACEY Local Awareness Events April 2013 DfE Update

  2. Today… • What Early Learning for Two Year Olds is and why we are offering it • What children will be eligible? • Funding • What support is DfE providing? • What data tells us – nationally • More Great Childcare – wider context, changed role for local authorities • Questions and Comments

  3. What is Early Learning for two-year-olds? • Current landscape: • Funded early education places for all three- and four-year-olds. • Some Local Authority funded places for two-year-olds. • Early Learning for two-year-olds: • For 130,000 two-year-olds from September 2013, and 260,000 from September2014. • 570 hours per child (typically 15 hours per week, 38 weeks of the year). • A duty on the local authority to secure places for eligible two-year-olds.

  4. Why are we funding two year old places? • Children’s experiences and achievements in their early years have a lasting impact. • Already a gap between disadvantaged children and their peers by age five. • We know that high quality early education makes a difference, but fewer two year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds currently participate in any early education. • It therefore contributes to helping them prepare for early education from age 3 and for school. • This is about supporting their development.

  5. What children will be eligible? • FromSeptember 2013, two-year-olds will be eligible if : • their families meet the earnings and benefits criteria also used for free school meals; and • they are looked after by the local authority. • Children will be eligible from 1 April, 1 Sep or 1 Jan following 2nd birthday, similar to current position for three-year-olds. • Once a child takes up a place, they keep it. • Some LAs are delivering some funded places for some two-year-olds now. • Funding allocated to LAs will enable them to fund places in 2013 for additional two-year-olds - mostly for children who’ll be eligible in 2014.

  6. What children will be eligible from Sept 2014? • Last autumn we consulted on the eligibility criteria to be used from September 2014, which would include two-year-olds if: • Their families receive Working Tax credits and have annual gross earnings of no more than £16,190 or Universal Credit and have annual gross earnings of no more than £16,190. • They have a current statement of special educational needs/ an Education, Health and Care plan or They attract Disability Living Allowance (DLA). • They have left care through special guardianship or an adoption or residence order. • Government response will be published shortly.

  7. Funding… • £525m revenue allocations to Local Authorities for 2013-14 : • Trajectory funding • Statutory place funding • Average hourly rate: £5.09 per hour • £100m capital

  8. This is an opportunity for childminders to sustain and grow • Around half of three-year-olds take-up their free places in private and voluntary settings or with childminders. Opportunity for yourbusinesses: • New demand. • Range of children. • Families may want to purchase additional hours. • £100m capital will be available through local authorities to support expansion. • Parents can contact you directly for a funded place – contact your LA to confirm that the two year old is eligible. • You need to be Ofsted registered but not part of a childminding network to offer places.

  9. What can childminders do? • Things to consider when deciding if you can deliver two-year-old places: • Talk to your LA or directly to parents to check if there is local demand. • What changes could you make now? Could you take more children if you change the way you deliver your hours? • Look at other ideas – ask what other childminders have done or are planning to do to take funded two-year-olds? • Use your PACEY Local support network/ Community website to find out more about the offer and encourage discussion • Advertise your vacancies through your local Family Information Service.

  10. What LA data tells us…. nationally • National estimate for April is c70,000 places. • Average progress to September 2013 – 37%. • Range is 4% to 98% and within this LAs may have ‘hot spots’.

  11. More great childcare • Supporting sector to deliver more high quality places by: • improving the regulatory regime; and • freeing high quality providers to offer more places.

  12. More great childcare….. Changed LA role • Reform of the local authority role in the delivery of early education and childcare, to focus them on supporting disadvantaged parents to access the best quality provision. • Local authorities as ‘champions’ of children and families  • Ofsted as the sole arbiter of quality in the early years • Good or Outstanding settings used for two-year-olds where possible. • Greater choice and flexibility for early years professionals • Simplifying early years funding system and passing more money to the frontline • Consultation runs until Monday 6 May 2013. https://www.education.gov.uk/consultations/index.cfm?action=consultationDetails&consultationId=1889&external=no&menu=1

  13. Questions and Comments

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