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Up and down the country, LAs have been working with childcare and education providers in both the private and voluntary sectors to implement different aspects of the Government's Childcare Strategy.
As part of the implementation process, LAs and partners have recorded and analysed their progress – and the lessons learned – to ensure that emerging good practice can be shared and taken forward.
This wealth of information, in the form of reports, surveys, case studies and guidance documents, is now available, grouped by theme, as detailed below.
Facilitating Childcare Markets focuses on meeting the LA duties to assess and deliver childcare.
Implementing the Flexible Free Entitlement explores how local authorities are working towards the requirement to ensure that from 2010 the parents of all 3- and 4-year-olds have free access to 15 hours per week flexible Early Years (EYFS) provision.
Offer for 2-year-olds explains the development of the pilot since 2006, and how the extended offer of free EYFS education and childcare will benefit disadvantaged 2-year-olds in all LAs by September 2009.
Increasing Childcare Take-up – BME shares the learning from projects aiming to extend the reach, quality and take-up of childcare and EYFS provision among black and minority ethnic (BME) families.
Increasing Childcare Take-up – Disabled Children focuses on approaches used to improve need-assessment of families with disabled children, and captures the lessons learned during the lead-up to the Childcare Accessibility pilot projects.
Rolling Out Extended Schools provides examples of how schools, working in partnership with LAs, providers and neighbouring schools, successfully enabled access to a core of integrated 'extended' services.
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Last updated on 04/05/2009
