Lambeth Childrens Centre Conference

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Lambeth Childrens Centre Conference
Creating Sustainable Childcare
Community Childrens Service Childcare and
Business Development Teams

• 23 November 2007

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Introductions
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Local Authority Duty

• S.6 CCA 2006 Duty on LA so far as is reasonably
  practical to secure sufficient childcare for
  working parents.
• Its about giving all parents a real choice about
  how they balance work and family life. Within
  that overall objective it is about enabling
  parents on the lowest income and perhaps with the
  most difficult circumstances in terms of
  disabilities to lift themselves out of poverty
  and give their children a better start in life.
  Beverley Hughes Dec 2005
• S.11 CCA 2006 Duty to assess child care
  provision.
• LA to complete sufficiency assessments by April
  2008, followed by 3 year cycle of assessments.
• Lambeth has published its sufficiency assessment.

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Explanation of Group Work Exercise
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What is meant by Sustainability?

• Divide into groups
• In your group you will be given a laminated card
  with a title
• Business Planning link with local initiatives
• Quality
• Childcare Sufficiency
• National Agenda

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Feedback from Group Work
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In Conclusion
What are the keys messages about Sustainability?
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10 year strategy

• Flexibility Choice
• Parents have greater choice to balance work and
  family life
• Availability
• Meet circumstances of all families Children up
  to 14ys and 18 if disabled
• Affordability
• Increase free entitlement Increase take up of
  Working Tax Credit, CAP pilots
• Quality
• Workforce level 3 progression CPD graduate
  leader in every full day care setting by 2015
• Practice Improving Ofsted inspections Quality
  Improvement principles EYFS- statutory framework
  with clear common standards.
• Outcome FSP results

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• Quality/Sustainability/Affordability key
  challenges for next phase of 10 year strategy
• Funding can be both an enabler and lever to
  improve quality
• Local authority have key role in market
  management but need to work in partnership with
  parents and providers
• Providers role-marketing to increase occupancy,
  good business planning, partnership with other
  providers.

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London Development Agency
An Overview of CAP
Pauline Graham, Kelly Burke, Laila Zaghari
Theresa Shortland