Sunderland City Council

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Sunderland City Council

• Geoff Dorrity
• Performance Management and Quality Group Manager
  in Extended Services and Attendance Group

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Early Years Providers

• Maintained
• 60 Nursery Classes
• 9 Nursery Schools
• 87 of Provision
• PVI Sector
• 3 Nursery Classes of independent schools
• 27 daycare nurseries
• 2 sessional/playgroup
• 13 of Provision

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Number of Children

• 3 Year Olds 2800
• 4 Year Olds 3000
• Of whom only 44 had not accessed nursery
  education
• prior to beginning statutory education

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Pathfinder

• To increase the full entitlement to 15 hours and
  to
• deliver this flexibly over a minimum of 3 days

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History

• 2002/03 Review of maintained nursery places by
  school
• clusters
• Aim
• To reduce number of surplus places
• To increase accessibility for parents

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Present

• 2 strands within pilot
• Developing models of delivery
• Developing an equitable funding model

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Developing Models of Delivery

• Within Childrens Centre 5 cluster areas broken
  down further into neighbourhoods
• Provision delivered between partners

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Developing Equitable Funding Model

• Bring review of maintained nursery places forward
  and link to primary review
• Review current funding models
• Maintained blocks of 13
• PVI by child

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Aim

• Deliver equitable funding model enabling all
  settings to
• establish 3 year budgets

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Definition of Equitable

• Factors
• Different staffing ratios
• EYFS
• Added value e.g. additional services
• Quality
• EYPS/Teacher leading curriculum

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Process

• Discussions with school finance
• Paper to CSLT
• Consultation meetings with all providers in
  neighbourhood areas
• Paper to schools forum
• Paper to LMS Group
• Paper to schools admission forum