Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so. 5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities. 5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting. 5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable. 5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period. 5.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places. 5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance. 5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible. 5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Sources: Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement
Flexibility. Children are able 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to take up their full entitlement 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to early education at times that best support their learning 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and development, offered all year round. *(for three and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours of work if they wish to do soextended entitlement).
5.1. Provision must 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be offered within longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the national parameters on flexibility as set out Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in Section A2 a single day
6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. 6.4 Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.5 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. There The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is no requirement available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website).
6.6 Providers can define the maximum number of funded hours that providers they will offer in a session or day, but this information must be open made clear to parents within the provider’s charging policy and website where applicable.
6.7 Parents must be asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours.
6.8 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.
6.9 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at least 38 weeks more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.
6.10 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2020 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2020 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for said child.
6.11 The SCC Declaration will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the yearimplications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, • Providers and Parents, carers • SCC and Parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision.
7.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or that providers join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can bring and explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇-▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder.
7.2 Attending more than one Provider
7.2.1 Attending term time settings only: • A child can attend just term-time settings, but the total claim must offer not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours in order a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement). If the child attends through the holidays, the maximum number of hours each week will be less. • Parents, carers, must make it clear on the Declaration Form before the beginning of each funded period where they want to receive funding claim the funded hours. Priority will be given to deliver funded placesthe setting who submits their information first.
5.67.2.2 Child attending stretched and term time providers: • Where the stretched funding Provider submits their claim first, only the weekly stretched hours balance will be available for the term time setting to claim. • Where multiple providers are being accessedthe term time only Provider submits their claim first, parents should inform each provider there will only be a balance of hours for the stretched funding Provider to claim, which is means that the main provider and hours may “run out” before the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum end of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year)the funded period. The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. IfProvider will need to charge the parent, during the termly headcount processcarer, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over that are not funded. • It might be helpful for both settings to agree to work with the maximum allowance.
5.7Funded Early Education Team to maximise funding for each provider. • A Parent, carer, may choose to pay for all of their child’s care at your setting if they are using all of their funded hours at another setting. • If a provider chooses child goes to be closed on both your setting and a bank holidaymaintained nursery class or school, parent/carers should you will only be able to request movement of any lost early education claim for the funded hours to another point in that the week/funding periodparent, within carer is not using at the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possiblemaintained nursery class or school.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Sources: Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement
Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the “Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2” (issued June 2018 or such subsequent versions of the guidance as may be published by the Department for Education). • The provider Provider should work with the LA Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, Early Years Funding to support the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the Local Authority. The provider must Provider should also make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.. • The Provider shall adhere to the following requirements relating to sessions they propose to offer:
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to i. No funded session can be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.longer than 10 hours
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.5ii. There is no requirement that providers minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register)
iii. Funded sessions cannot operate before 6.00am or after 8.00pm
iv. Funding is limited to one setting only for 2 year olds
v. Funding is limited to a maximum of two sites in a single day for 3 and 4 year olds
vi. Providers may consider offering funded places: - o over a maximum of 52 weeks of the year o outside of school term times o at weekends • The Provider/parent contract is to be drawn up between the main Provider and the parent using the Parent Declaration Form in appendix 1. Where a second Provider is used to support the delivery of the child’s Early Years Funding, the 2nd provider’s written agreement must be obtained on the form in appendix 1 by the parent and returned to the main provider. • A signed copy of this Parent Declaration Form should be given to the parent for their information. The original copies should be held by the main provider for audit purposes and by the Local Authority for a period of 6 years. • Providers who open for at least less than 38 weeks of the year should make parents aware that they can take up the rest of their entitlement with another Provider. • Parents can take up their child’s funded place in patterns of hours that “stretch” their child’s entitlement by taking fewer hours a week over more weeks of the year, or that providers must where there is Provider capacity and depending on parental demand. • A stretched offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is at the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity discretion of the providerProvider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possibleStretched offer guidance is available through the Liverpool Early Years Provider Portal.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Sources: Early Years Funding Agreement, Early Years Funding Agreement
Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.110.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider Providers should work with the LA Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, entitlements to support the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the Local Authority.
10.2. The provider must Providers should make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.410.3. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.510.4. Bracknell Forest Council is committed to supporting providers to offer flexible places to meet parental need and will work in partnership with providers to achieve this. Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of places, within the following parameters: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • can be outside of maintained school term times • can include weekends
10.5. Subject to the standards set out in 10.4, there is no requirement for entitlement places to be taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the week or at particular times of the day.
10.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement with more than one provider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and that regular liaison between providers takes place.
10.7. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of hours between the settings. The distribution of hours must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding according to the distribution of hours recorded on the PDF.
10.8. The situation may arise where a child attends one provider term time only and a second provider on a stretched offer over more than 38 weeks. Providers should check the funded hours claimed across both providers to ensure that the child is receiving a maximum of 15 funded hours a week and a maximum of 570 hours a year (or 1140 hours for children accessing the 30 hours entitlement).
10.9. There is no requirement that for providers must to be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, year or that providers must to offer 30 hours in order all the entitlements to receive funding to deliver funded entitlement places. However, providers must make it clear to parents, prior to the child taking up their place, where their business model restricts access to the full entitlement.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Sources: Provider Agreement for Funding Early Years Provision and Childcare, Provider Agreement for Funding Early Years Provision and Childcare
Flexibility. Children are able 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to take up their full entitlement 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to early education at times that best support their learning 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and development, offered all year round. *(for three and at times which fit with four-year-olds eligible for the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do soworking parent entitlement).
5.1. Provision 6.2 SCC encourages Providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in a single day
6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
6.4 There is no requirement that funded places must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance week or at particular times of the day. There is also no requirement that Providers are open for Local Authoritiesat least 38 weeks of the year, or that Providers must offer all of the funded entitlements in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.2. 6.5 The provider should work with funded entitlement cannot be compressed to allow the LA and share information about parent to access more than 15 or 30 hours per week over fewer than 38 weeks of the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their settingyear.
5.3. 6.6 Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that that, where reasonably practicable, children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.7 The Provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. There The Provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is no requirement that providers available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website).
6.8 Parents must be open asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all Providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but Providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for parents’ working hours.
6.9 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.
6.10 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at least 38 weeks more than one Provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.
6.11 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2023/24. A form must be completed for every Provider that the parent intends to take their child’s funded hours with, giving consent for the Provider to claim the funding on their behalf. Where parents intend to claim funded hours at more than one Provider, whether this be in Surrey or not, the details of the year, or that providers other Provider must offer 30 hours in order be included on the declaration form to receive ensure the correct funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provisionProvider. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2023/24 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a Provider, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week SCC reserves the right to reclaim funding paid for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). said child.
6.12 The Parent/Carer SCC Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider Form will be informed utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity made aware of the providerimplications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of every Provider’s charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and Providers are encouraged i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI Providers and childminders • Providers working with other Providers, including childminders, schools and organisations • Providers and parents, carers • SCC and parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of Providers to accommodate these requests where possibleoffer flexible provision.
5.87.1 The Provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other Providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust to help Providers set up or join a partnership; tackle the challenges joint working can choose not bring; explore different ways of responding to deliver the extended funded placesentitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together.
7.2 The Provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different Providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder.
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement
Flexibility. Children are able 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to take up their full entitlement 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to early education at times that best support their learning 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and development, offered all year round. *(for three and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours of work if they wish to do soextended entitlement).
5.1. Provision must 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be offered within longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the national parameters on flexibility as set out Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in Section A2 a single day
6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. 6.4 Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.5 The provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. There The provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is no requirement that providers available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website).
6.6 Parents must be open asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded placesparents’ working hours.
5.66.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.
6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.
6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2021 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where multiple providers are being accessedthe parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2021 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, parents should inform each provider of which is SCC reserves the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week right to reclaim funding paid for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). said child.
6.10 The Parent/Carer SCC Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity made aware of the providerimplications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI providers and childminders • Providers are encouraged working with other providers, • Providers and parents, carers • SCC and parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to accommodate these requests where possibleoffer flexible provision.
5.87.1 The provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. Providers An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust, to help providers; set up or join a partnership, tackle the challenges joint working can choose not bring and explore different ways of responding to deliver the extended funded placesentitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at: ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇-▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ The provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder.
7.2 Attending more than one provider
Appears in 2 contracts
Sources: Provider Agreement, Provider Agreement
Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.110.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider Providers should work with the LA and Local Authority to share information about the times and periods at which when they are able to can offer funded entitlements, to support helping the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and enough flexible places to meet parental demandparent’s needs in the area.
10.2. The provider must make Providers should give parents information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point when the child first accesses provision starts at their setting.
5.310.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence Research shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the childfor children. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should Providers must ensure that children are able to can take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial if they wish to, avoiding unnecessary breaks being created throughout during the day, for example such as over the lunch periodlunchtime.
5.510.4. There Bracknell Forest Council is no requirement that committed to supporting providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that in offering flexible entitlement places to meet parent needs and will work with providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the providermake this happen. Providers are encouraged to accommodate offer flexible place options within these requests where possibleguidelines: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (as long as it meets Ofsted Early Years Register requirements) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • can be outside of school term times • can include weekends
10.5. Providers do not need to offer entitlement places on specific days or times, as long as they meet the conditions set in 10.4.
5.810.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement at more than one provider, both providers must ensure continuity of care and communicate regularly.
10.7. If a child attends two or more settings a week, the parent decides how to divide the hours between the settings. This distribution must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding based on the hours listed on the PDF.
10.8. A child may attend two settings where the number of weeks funding is provided differs, for example, one provider offers funding over 38 weeks and the other over 48 weeks. In these cases, each provider should check the total funded hours claimed across both settings to ensure the child does not exceed the maximum number of hours available for the year.
10.9. Providers can choose do not have to deliver funded be open for 38 weeks a year or offer all entitlements to receive funding for entitlement places. However, they must inform parents in advance if their business model restricts access to the full entitlement.
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Flexibility. Children 4.1 It is expected that the early years entitlements are delivered in a way which is useful for parents and meets their needs and in a way that maximises and safeguards child development.
4.2 In addition to the requirements under ‘Charging’ in Section 2, providers also should ensure that all parents receive full information at the point the child first accesses provision at the setting about:
4.3 The provider should work with Nottingham City Council and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to take up offer the free entitlements to support Nottingham City Council to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in the Nottingham City Council area.
4.4 Where a child receives their full early years entitlement at more than one setting, the parent needs to indicate on the Parent Declaration Form how many hours per week they claim their early education years entitlement place at times that best support each setting. • For working parents of 3 and 4 year olds accessing the 30 hour entitlement, their learning and development, and Parent Declaration Form should state at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if setting they wish to do soclaim the universal entitlement (15 hours) should they fall out of eligibility (an example Parent Declaration Form can be found in the ‘Further Information and Example Documentation’ Pack). • For working parents of 2 year olds accessing the 30 hour entitlement, where they are eligible for both the additional support and working parent see clause 3.12 in regards to how these hours are split and funded. • For working parents of 9 – 23 months and 2 year olds who are only entitled to working parent 30 hour funding, the Parent Declaration Form should state how many hours they wish to claim at each setting (an example Parent Declaration Form can be found in the ‘Further Information and Example Documentation’ Pack). • Parents in receipt of Disability Living Allowance and able to claim Disability Access Funding for their child, should also indicate which setting they wish to receive this funding if the child accesses their early years entitlement at more than one setting. This funding can only be paid in full to one setting each year.
5.14.5 Where a child has appeared on more than one settings headcount, double claims will be checked. Partnership Working
4.6 The LA should work in partnership with providers to agree how to deliver places and partnerships should be supported by LA’s on four levels between;
4.7 The LA promotes partnership working between different types of providers, including childminders, across all sectors and encourages more providers to offer flexible provision, alongside other providers.
4.8 Providers should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed to help providers set up or join a partnership, maximise the benefits of working together and tackle the challenges joint working can bring. This toolkit can be accessed at:
4.9 Providers should discuss and work closely with parents to agree how a child’s overall care will work in practice when their free entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained setting and childminder, to ensure a smooth transition for the child.
4.10 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local AuthoritiesLA’s:
4.11 Nottingham City Council will not fund any early years entitlement hours outside these parameters.
5.2. The provider should work with 4.12 Providers need to decide which delivery model will best meet the LA needs of the families and share information about the times communities they serve and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their settingmakes sound sustainable business sense for them as a provider.
5.3. 4.13 Providers are not expected can deliver early years entitlement places: • Over up to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.’s entitlement • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
5.5. 4.14 There is no requirement that early years entitlement places must be taken, or delivered, on particular days of the week or at particular times of the day.
4.15 There is no requirement for providers must to be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours all the early years entitlements, in order to receive funding funding.
4.16 Providers can only claim for the weeks that they are open to deliver funded placesthe early years entitlements.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. 4.17 If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holidayis not delivering the full early years entitlement hours, parent/carers they should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point inform parents in writing, explain what they can offer and what the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possiblefull entitlement is.
5.8. 4.18 Providers can choose not to deliver funded early years entitlement places.
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Flexibility. Children are able 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to take up their full entitlement 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to early education at times that best support their learning 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and development, offered all year round. *(for three and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours of work if they wish to do soextended entitlement).
5.1. Provision must 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be offered within longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the national parameters on flexibility as set out Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in Section A2 a single day
6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. 6.4 Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.5 The provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. There The provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is no requirement that providers available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website).
6.6 Parents must be open asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the arrangements. Not all providers will be able to offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of hours is convenient for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded placesparents’ working hours.
5.66.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.
6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.
6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2022 each funded period with every provider that they intend to take their funded hours with, giving them consent for the provider to claim the funding on the parent’s behalf. Where multiple providers are being accessedthe parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2022 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, parents should inform each provider of which is SCC reserves the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week right to reclaim funding paid for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). said child.
6.10 The Parent/Carer SCC Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity made aware of the providerimplications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded hours as part of your charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI providers and childminders • Providers are encouraged working with other providers, • Providers and parents, carers • SCC and parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to accommodate these requests where possibleoffer flexible provision.
5.87.1 The provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. Providers An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust to help providers set up or join a partnership; tackle the challenges joint working can choose not bring; explore different ways of responding to deliver the extended funded placesentitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together. You can find out further information at:▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇-▇▇-▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ The provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder.
7.2 Attending more than one provider
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.16.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.26.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.36.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, sustainable and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.46.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours all the funded entitlements in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.66.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, 15 or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year)30 hours per week. The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.76.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.86.8. Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required.
6.9. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.17.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.27.2. The provider should work with the LA authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support free entitlements via Plymouth Online Directory and the LA Family Information Directory.
7.3. The provider should work in partnership with the authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the local area. The provider must should also make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.37.4. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to Children should be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded free hours in as part of continuous blocks provision and providers should avoid artificial breaks being created throughout in the day wherever possible. For example, the lunch time hour/session should form part of the free provision where the child is attending a morning and afternoon session. Providers may wish to offer additional hours around the free provision hours. Please see examples shown in Early Years Entitlements Operational Guidance June 2018. Early_years_entitlements-operational_guidance.pdf
7.5. Private, voluntary and independent providers are free to set their own criteria for the admission of children, providing they comply with relevant legislation on equalities and non-discrimination. However, all parents should have the same rights to access a free entitlement place, regardless of whether they choose to pay for additional hours of provision, additional activities or meals. Whilst the child continues to take up their free entitlement there should be no restrictions on that place e.g. parents should not have to reserve a place each term.
7.6. Providers should ensure that their admissions information is clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish the number of standalone 15 and 30 hours places on the Family Information Directory (FID) on the settings information page. This will enable parents to make an informed decision on where to take up their child’s entitlement.
7.7. Providers should ensure that they are completely transparent and as flexible as possible about which hours/sessions can be taken as free provision and this should be consistent for all parents taking up free hours. Providers should provide parents with clear and itemised invoices showing the breakdown of all charges. The authority reserves the right to challenge unclear invoicing systems.
7.8. A child can attend multiple provisions for their weekly funded hours but a maximum of two providers can be used in a day.
7.9. It is the parent’s responsibility to determine how the hours are divided across all providers and clearly identify the division of hours on the Parent Declaration form. It is the provider’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of hours stated on the Parent Declaration by communicating early with the other providers stated on the form.
7.10. A child accessing a Stretched Offer may attend two providers per day, for example over and is funded the lunch periodmaximum of 12 hours per week if in receipt of 15 hours free childcare or 24 hours per week if in receipt of 30 hours free child care.
5.57.11. There If the child transfers to another provider during the term, then the parent/carer must indicate where their child was previously attending and for how many weeks and which offer (Standard or Stretched) is being accessed, this should be stated on the Parent Declaration Form. It is the provider’s responsibility to communicate with the previous provider.
7.12. If the transfer occurs before the headcount payment is released, then the funding can be apportioned by the authority with agreement of both providers and by informing the local authority finance department.
7.13. It is important that the determination of how the 15/30 hours is divided between the providers is completed at the beginning of term when the Parent Declaration forms are signed. If more than 15/30 hours (Double Claimer) are claimed and this is only identified after Headcount, then it is likely to result in a delay of payment or a reclaim of any excess payment made. In the event of no requirement agreement being reached between the providers, then the authority will make the final decision.
7.14. Parent declaration forms should be completed on behalf of all children who attend the setting and take-up their free entitlement. The form should state the number of hours being claimed (rounded down to the nearest half hour) by the parent as well as details of other settings their child may be attending.
7.15. Parents are not required to complete a new declaration form in the first week of every term, if there has been no change in circumstance/take-up of the free entitlement. Parents should sign their original form on a termly basis to confirm that providers the original parent declaration form remains valid. Parents will be required to sign a new parent declaration form during the first week of term if their child has started a new setting or has increased/decreased their take-up.
7.16. If a child is accessing a 30 hour place and splitting their entitlement across multiple providers, it is important that the Parent Declaration form specifies how many universal hours and how many extended hours will be claimed with each provider.
7.17. If a child joins the setting after the first week of term, the parent/carer must state on the Parent Declaration form where their child was previously attending and for how many weeks.
7.18. The Parent Declaration form includes a section for the Ethnic Origin and the First Language of the child to be recorded, however this section is optional, but the information will assist the Department for Education and the authority in providing a better service.
7.19. If the parent/carer is entitled to 30 hours of free childcare, their eligibility code and National Insurance number should be stated on the form. These details will be used by the provider to verify the eligibility code.
7.20. The Parent Declaration form includes a section where parents/carers can state if their child is in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (care element or mobility element) and therefore eligible for Disability Access Funding. The provider must also see a copy of the DLA letter and tick the proof of eligibility section. A copy of the eligibility letter should be attached to the parent declaration form and retained by the provider.
7.21. The provider must see proof of eligibility of the child’s age and tick the proof of eligibility section of the Parent Declaration form.
7.22. For two year old funding, the provider must also see the Confirmation of Eligibility confirming eligibility for two year old funding and tick the two year old eligibility section on the Parent Declaration Form. A copy of the confirmation letter should be attached to the Parent Declaration form and retained by the provider. Once the setting has been provided with a confirmation letter, a placement notification should be completed on the early years provider portal.
7.23. The responsible officer must sign the Parent Declaration form on behalf of the provider.
7.24. Parent Declarations must be open retained by the provider and be available for at least 38 weeks audit verification.
7.25. Parent Declaration forms are published on the Early Education Funding and The Provider Portal webpage.
7.26. The provider may incorporate the details of the yearParent Declaration form as set out above into their Parent Contract, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6simplify the paperwork. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.Parent_Declaration_Form_Standard_Offer.pdf
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. 7.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider 7.2 Providers should work with the LA local authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, the early years entitlements to support the LA local authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider demand in the local authority area.
7.3 Providers must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.37.4 Where settings decide they will only offer the universal entitlement, the local authority will not insist a Provider delivers the extended entitlement to meet parental demand. Parents may choose to use more than one Provider to access their full early years entitlements; and how the hours are split between the Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, their choice for the universal and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viableextended entitlement hours.
5.47.5 If a child is accessing more than two sites in a single day, the parent will be contacted by the local authority and asked to nominate settings on a maximum of two sites in a single day. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in The local authority will recoup any overpayment of funding.
7.6 Providers must not compress the best interests early years entitlement hours. Parents cannot take more than 15 or 30 hours per week over fewer than 38 weeks of the childyear. Where it However, parents can choose a Provider that is reasonably practicable LAs open for fewer than 38 weeks of the year and receive the 15 or 30 hours a week during fewer weeks.
7.7 Providers must not bank unused hours (other than delivering a stretched claim over an academic year) as this can lead to an over claim if the parent leaves the Provider or chooses not to access the hours.
7.8 Providers should ensure that children are able to take up their deliver flexible packages of funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid hours, with no artificial breaks being created throughout the daybreaks, for example over the lunch period.
5.57.9 Where Providers offer additional paid for hours these should be offered either side of a child’s funded sessions. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers Parents should be able to request movement access an early years entitlement place of any lost early education up to 15 or 30 hours a week without being required to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possiblepay for additional hours.
5.8. 7.10 Providers can choose must not make the purchase of additional fee paid hours a condition of accessing a funded place of up to deliver funded places15 or 30 hours per week.
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Flexibility. Children 8.1 KCC acting through The Education People wants to ensure that children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education Free Early Education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should KCC, acting through The Education People will ensure that children are able to take up their funded free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.58.2 The Education People will encourage effective partnership working between providers from all sectors to ensure maximum flexibility for parents and their children. There Providers will be encouraged to offer flexible packages of free hours with: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • no session commencing before 6.00am or finishing after 8.00pm • children accessing no more than two sites in a single day
8.3 Although parents can split their Free Entitlement between multiple providers, continuity of care is important for the child. Providers should be mindful of the impact that multiple provision could have on a child’s learning, development and wellbeing.
8.4 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement that providers free places must be open for at least 38 weeks taken on or delivered on particular days of the yearweek or at particular times of the day, or that providing they are between the hours of 6.00am and 8.00pm.
8.5 The Education People will provide information for both providers must and parents to explain there is no requirement for providers to offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded placesuniversal Free Early Education and that providers are free to choose not to deliver Free Early Education places at all.
5.6. 8.6 Where multiple providers are being accesseda child is accessing Free Early Education at more than one provider, a Parental Declaration Form must be completed by the parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and at both settings to show the total number of universal and/or extended hours claimed the child will be accessing at each provision.
8.7 Providers must share information with The Education People about the times and periods at which they are able to offer Free Early Education to support KCC acting through The Education People to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand.
8.8 Providers must ensure that their patterns of hours, ensuring during which free places are offered are clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish their standalone 15 and 30 hour patterns to enable parents to make an informed decision on where to access their entitlement.
8.9 Providers should have a written agreement with all parents that in no circumstance does take up a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year)Free Early Education place. The Parent/Carer Parental Declaration form Form can be such an agreement, but this must be signed by parents before providers claim funding for the child5. Any fees should detail providers be clearly set out in a Fee Structure that shows how Free Early Education is delivered and any additional charges for optional activities outside the Free Entitlement.
8.10 Free Early Education can be offered over 38 weeks or up to 52 weeks as a “stretched” offer whereby fewer weekly hours are spread over more weeks to produce the same annualised total entitlement for Free Early Education hours. If, during Bank Holidays cannot form part of the termly headcount process, Free Early Education hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how providers cannot include inset/training days in their funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7pattern. If a provider chooses to be closed funded day falls on a bank holiday, parent/carers an alternative session must be offered.
8.11 Where providers’ premises are used for polling stations, every effort should be able made to request movement offer alternative sessions, but providers will not be penalized financially if they are unable to do so. Other closures due to circumstances beyond a provider’s control should be notified to MI and The Education People otherwise funding may need to be returned.
8.12 Where providers are unable to offer 38 weeks of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the providerthey must ensure that parents are aware that they cannot access their full entitlement with them. Providers are encouraged must not offer more than 15 hours (Universal Entitlement) or 30 hours (Extended Entitlement) over fewer number of weeks. 5 No payment will be made to accommodate these requests where possiblethe provider unless the parental declaration has been completed and dated by the person for legal responsibility for the named child. The provider must not sign the declaration.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. 8.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance guidance for Local Authorities, which includes: • No session to be longer than 10 hours. • No minimum session length. • Not before 6am or after 8pm. • A maximum of two sites in a single day. • Continuous provision during a day, without ‘artificial breaks’.
5.2. 8.2 The provider should work with the LA local authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, free entitlements to support the LA local authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the local authority. The provider must should also make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.38.3 Providers should submit information about their setting to the local authority through the Online Forms section of the Online Provider Portal and should be completed termly. Providers are not expected Where providers have given permission, this information will be supplied to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viableparents/carers looking for childcare.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in 8.4 To claim funding for a child, the best interests of provider must have a completed Parent Declaration Form for every child, clearly identifying how the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributedallocated. The parent For three and four-year-old children, this must include details on the allocation of the ‘universal’ (first 15) hours and the additional 15 funded hours Working Families for qualifying children.
8.5 Where a child attends more than one funded setting, the parents/carers will choose how their child’s free hours are allocated, unless one of the providers is a specialist10 provider. • If a child is attending a specialist provider, the specialist provider must be allocated the hours first, up to 15 funded hours per week (the ‘universal’ hours for three and four-year- olds). Any remaining funded hours can then be allocated to another setting/s by the parent/carer. • If a specialist provider offers more than 15 hours per week to a child, any hours above 15 will be liable funded at the standard hourly Nursery Education Funding rate plus the appropriate Inclusion Supplement. • Where a child is attending two or more mainstream providers, the parent/carer can allocate the funded hours to best suit their provider for any hours claimed over needs, taking into account what is offered by the maximum allowanceproviders.
5.78.6 Providers should support parents/carers to complete the Parent Declaration Form appropriately, taking into consideration what ‘funded offer’ is available at their setting.
8.7 Parents/carers will be made aware that if a three and four-year-old child no longer qualifies for the 15 funded hours for Working Families, the child’s funded hours will be allocated as per the ‘universal’ (first 15) offer the parent/carer has indicated on the Parent Declaration Form. If a provider chooses to be closed 10 Specialist providers include Special School Nursery Classes, Nursery Plus Classes, Early Years Speech and Language Units, Enhanced Early Years provision and Nursery Assessment Units. Page | 12 ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇
8.8 Where providers are offering the funded entitlement on a bank holiday‘stretched’ basis (over more than 38 weeks), parentparents/carers should have a clear understanding of how many funded hours their child/ren will receive each week and how many weeks they will be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in provided over. This should be recorded accurately on the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possibleParent Declaration Form.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. 9.1 Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2Guidance. The provider Provider should work with the LA Council and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, Free Entitlement Places to support the LA Council to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must Provider should also make information about their offer and offer, admissions criteria and schedule of charges for additional hours and Services available to parents no later than at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected 9.3 The Provider is encouraged to agree offer a flexible choice of free entitlement hours to all flexible requests from every individual parent. fit with the needs of Parents and Service Users.
9.4 It is understood the Provider’s responsibility to ensure that changes to patterns of the total hours claimed for a child does not exceed the child’s entitlement. If the delivery to is shared by more flexible provision will need than one Provider, it is the Provider’s responsibility to be sustainable, aware of the hours being claimed for by other Providers. The Parent will complete a Parent Declaration Form and therefore demanded by a number of parents Section 4 contains information on providers and attendance details. The Provider should discuss any concerns arising from this information with the Parent to be financially viableensure the Parent is not claiming for more hours that they are entitled to.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision 9.5 It is in the best interests Provider’s responsibility to ensure a Parent Declaration Form:
a) is completed for every child who will access a Free Entitlement Place (separate form for each child);
b) has the child’s date of birth information confirmed through the Provider seeing original documentation i.e. birth certificate, passport, NHS medical card;
c) is completed and signed by the Parent prior to the child taking up their Free Entitlement Place; and
d) is checked for accuracy and re-signed prior to every Funding Period
9.6 All Providers will make available to Parents the option of taking the free entitlement hours over 38 weeks of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch periodyear (term time).
5.5. There is no requirement that providers must be open for at least 9.7 Providers who choose to deliver a stretched offer where the free entitlement hours are taken over more than 38 weeks of the year, can choose to offer one, all or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity combination of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.following options: 51 weeks; 50 weeks; 47.5 weeks; 45 weeks
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.110.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider Providers should work with the LA and Local Authority to share information about the times and periods at which when they are able to can offer funded entitlements, to support helping the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and enough flexible places to meet parental demandparent’s needs in the area.
10.2. The provider must make Providers should give parents information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point when the child first accesses provision starts at their setting.
5.310.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence Research shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the childfor children. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should Providers must ensure that children are able to can take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial if they wish to, avoiding unnecessary breaks being created throughout during the day, for example such as over the lunch periodlunchtime.
5.510.4. There Bracknell Forest Council is no requirement that committed to supporting providers must be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, or that in offering flexible entitlement places to meet parent needs and will work with providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the providermake this happen. Providers are encouraged to accommodate offer flexible place options within these requests where possibleguidelines: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (as long as it meets Ofsted Early Years Register requirements) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • can be outside of school term times • can include weekends
10.5. Providers do not need to offer entitlement places on specific days or times, as long as they meet the conditions set in 10.4.
5.810.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement at more than one provider, both providers must ensure continuity of care and communicate regularly.
10.7. If a child attends two or more settings a week, the parent decides how to divide the hours between the settings. This distribution must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding based on the hours listed on the PDF.
10.8. A child may attend two settings where the number of weeks funding is provided differs, for example, one provider offers funding over 38 weeks and the other over 48 weeks. In these cases, each provider should check the total funded hours claimed across both settings to ensure the child does not exceed the maximum number of hours available for the year.
10.9. Providers can choose do not have to deliver funded be open for 38 weeks a year or offer all entitlements to receive funding for entitlement places. However, they must inform parents in advance if their business model restricts access to the full entitlement.
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.110.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider Providers should work with the LA Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, entitlements to support the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the Local Authority.
10.2. The provider must Providers should make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.410.3. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.510.4. Bracknell Forest Council is committed to supporting providers to offer flexible places to meet parental need and will work in partnership with providers to achieve this. Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of places, within the following parameters: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm • a maximum of two sites in a single day • up to 52 weeks of the year if the parent is stretching their child’s entitlement • can be outside of maintained school term times • can include weekends
10.5. Subject to the standards set out in 10.4, there is no requirement for entitlement places to be taken on, or delivered on, particular days of the week or at particular times of the day.
10.6. If parents choose to take their entitlement with more than one provider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and that regular liaison between providers takes place.
10.7. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of hours between the settings. The distribution of hours must be recorded on the Parent Declaration Form (PDF). Each provider will claim funding according to the distribution of hours recorded on the PDF.
10.8. The situation may arise where a child attends one provider term time only and a second provider on a stretched offer over more than 38 weeks. Providers should check the funded hours claimed across both providers to ensure that the child is receiving a maximum of 15 funded hours a week and a maximum of 570 hours a year (or 1140 hours for children accessing the 30 hours entitlement).
10.9. There is no requirement that for providers must to be open for at least 38 weeks of the year, year or that providers must to offer 30 hours in order all the entitlements to receive funding to deliver funded entitlement places. However, providers must make it clear to parents, prior to the child taking up their place, where their business model restricts access to the full entitlement.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Flexibility. Children 8.1 KCC acting through The Education People wants to ensure that children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education Free Early Education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should KCC, acting through The Education People will ensure that children are able to take up their funded free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch periodperiod or midway through a morning or afternoon session.
5.58.2 The Education People will encourage effective partnership working between providers from all sectors to ensure maximum flexibility for parents and their children. There Providers will be encouraged to offer flexible packages of free hours with: • no session longer than 10 hours • no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) • no session commencing before 6.00am or finishing after 8.00pm • children accessing no more than two sites in a single day.
8.3 Although parents can split their Free Entitlement between multiple providers, continuity of care is important for the child. Providers should be mindful of the impact that multiple provision could have on a child’s learning, development and wellbeing.
8.4 The Education People will provide information for both providers and parents to explain there is no requirement that providers free places must be open for at least 38 weeks taken on or delivered on particular days of the yearweek or at particular times of the day, or that providing they are between the hours of 6.00am and 8.00pm.
8.5 The Education People will provide information for both providers must and parents to explain there is no requirement for providers to offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded placesuniversal Free Early Education and that providers are free to choose not to deliver Free Early Education places at all.
5.6. 8.6 Where multiple providers are being accesseda child is accessing Free Early Education at more than one provider, a Parental Declaration Form must be completed by the parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and at both settings to show the total number of universal and/or extended hours claimed the child will be accessing at each provision.
8.7 Providers must share information with The Education People about the times and periods at which they are able to offer Free Early Education to support KCC acting through The Education People to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand.
8.8 Providers must ensure that their patterns of hours, ensuring during which free places are offered are clear and accessible for parents. Providers must publish their standalone 15 and 30 hour patterns to enable parents to make an informed decision on where to access their entitlement.
8.9 Providers should have a written agreement with all parents that in no circumstance does take up a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year)Free Early Education place. The Parent/Carer Parental Declaration form Form can be such an agreement, but this must be signed by parents before providers claim funding for the child5. Any fees should detail providers be clearly set out in a Fee Structure that shows how Free Early Education is delivered and any additional charges for optional activities outside the Free Entitlement.
8.10 Free Early Education can be offered over 38 weeks or up to 52 weeks as a ‘stretched’ offer whereby fewer weekly hours are spread over more weeks to produce the same annualised total entitlement for Free Early Education hours. If, during Bank Holidays cannot form part of the termly headcount process, Free Early Education hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how providers cannot include inset/training days in their funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7pattern. If a provider chooses to be closed funded day falls on a bank holiday, parent/carers an alternative session must be offered.
8.11 Where providers’ premises are used for polling stations, every effort should be able made to request movement of any lost early education hours offer alternative sessions, but providers will not be penalised financially if they are unable to another point in the week/do so. Other closures due to circumstances beyond a provider’s control should be notified to MI and The Education People otherwise funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged may need to accommodate these requests where possiblebe returned.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Flexibility. Children are able 6.1 Providers should offer parents their funded entitlement: • Up to take up their full entitlement 15 or 30* hours a week for 38 weeks a year which equates to early education at times that best support their learning 570 or 1140* hours a year if stretched and development, offered all year round. *(for three and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their four-year-olds eligible for 30 hours of work if they wish to do soextended entitlement).
5.1. Provision must 6.2 SCC encourages providers to offer flexible packages of funded entitlement, subject to the following: • No session to be offered within longer than 10 hours • No minimum session length (subject to requirements of registration on the national parameters on flexibility as set out Ofsted Early Years Register) • Not before 6am or after 8pm • A maximum of two sites in Section A2 a single day
6.3 Providers should be aware that funded entitlement places can be delivered: • For up to 52 weeks of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities.year • Outside of maintained school term times • At weekends
5.2. The provider should work with the LA and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, to support the LA to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand. The provider must make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. 6.4 Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs should ensure that children are able to take up their funded hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.56.5 The provider should work with SCC and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded hours to support SCC to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demand in Surrey. There The provider should also publish their admissions criteria and ensure clear and transparent information about their offer and admissions criteria is no requirement that providers available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting (through publicity materials, website).
6.6 Parents must be open for at least 38 weeks of asked to sign confirming that they have read and understood the year, or that arrangements. Not all providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded places.
5.6. Where multiple providers are being accessed, parents should inform each provider of which is the main provider and the total hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any hours claimed over the maximum allowance.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement offer fully flexible places, but providers should work with parents to ensure that as far as possible the pattern of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possibleis convenient for parents’ working hours.
5.86.7 Providers should give parents and carers a reasonable notice period where a change in timings of sessions or patterns of attendance is required. For example, if a nursery has changed ownership and the model of delivery of funded hours has been changed for pre-existing families.
6.8 Parents may choose to access their funded entitlement at more than one provider or on more than one site, but at no more than two sites in one day.
6.9 Parents must complete a SCC Declaration Form 2023/24. Providers can choose whether to use the termly forms or the combined annual form which is added to and re-signed by the parent at the start of each funded period. A termly or annual form must be completed for every provider that the parent intends to take their child’s funded hours with, giving consent for the provider to claim the funding on their behalf. Where parents intend to claim funded hours at more than one provider, whether this be in Surrey or not, the details of the other provider must be included on the declaration form to ensure the correct funding is claimed at each provider. Where the parent has not completed and signed the SCC Declaration Form 2023/24 upon commencement of taking their funded place at a provider, SCC reserves the right to deliver reclaim funding paid for said child.
6.10 The SCC Declaration Form will be utilised as evidence in assessing where a possible duplicate, fraudulent or an over claim has been made. Parents and carers should be made aware of the implications of submitting duplicate claims, fraudulent claims and over claiming funded placeshours as part of every provider’s charging policy. Partnerships will be supported by SCC between: • SCC and providers i.e.: maintained nurseries & schools, Early Years PVI providers and childminders • Providers working with other providers, • Providers and parents, carers • SCC and parents, carers SCC promotes partnership working between different types of providers to offer flexible provision.
7.1 The provider should work in partnership with parents, carers and other providers to improve provision and outcomes for children in their setting. An interactive toolkit has been developed by the Family and Childcare Trust to help providers set up or join a partnership; tackle the challenges joint working can bring; explore different ways of responding to the extended funded entitlement through a partnership approach and maximise the benefits of working together.
7.2 The provider should discuss and work closely with parents, carers, to agree how a child’s overall needs will be met in practice when their funded entitlement is split across different providers, such as at a maintained school and childminder.
7.3 Attending more than one provider
7.3.1 A child can attend more than one setting, but the total claim for funded hours must not be more than 15 hours or 30 hours a week (if eligible for the extended entitlement).
7.3.2 Parents, carers, must make it clear on the SCC Declaration Form at the beginning of each funded period where they want to claim the funded hours.
7.3.3 As of the Autumn 2023 term, Surrey providers will only be able to claim for term-time only hours on the portal, however providers can choose to stretch the funding locally themselves and therefore may be open for more than 38 weeks.
7.3.4 Providers should clearly communicate how funding is offered at their setting, including the number of weeks that funding can be accessed and the maximum number of hours per week that can be claimed so that parents fully understand their offer.
7.3.5 Where providers choose to stretch the funding themselves, they should keep a record of the funded hours that have been delivered. SCC suggests using The Stretched Funding tracker to show how many hours will be delivered and claimed for each child per funded period. The tracker can be requested from the EY commissioning team via ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇.
7.3.6 Where a child is taking a stretched offer and leaves part way through a funded period, the provider should ensure that the claim on the portal is correct and input a leaving date. Any remaining balance of hours must be accurate, particularly where the funding is released to another provider. Support with reconciliation of hours is available from the funded early education team.
7.3.7 Where funded hours are shared across Surrey providers, the names and number of hours are displayed to these providers in the Funded Early Education Portal. However, if a child is attending another provider in a different local authority, this will not be viewable on the portal. Providers are responsible for ensuring that they are not overclaiming for a child where they are also in attendance at another setting, where overclaims do occur, the provider will be invoiced by SCC.
7.3.8 If a child goes to both a maintained nursery class or school and an additional provider, the additional provider will only be able to claim for the funded hours that the parent, carer is not using at the maintained nursery class or school.
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Flexibility. Children are able to take up their full entitlement to early education at times that best support their learning and development, and at times which fit with the needs of parents to enable them to work or increase their hours of work if they wish to do so.
5.1. Provision must be offered within the national parameters on flexibility as set out in Section A2 of the Early Education and Childcare Statutory Guidance guidance for Local Authorities.
5.2. local authorities (2017) which states: The provider should work with the LA Local Authority and share information about the times and periods at which they are able to offer funded entitlements, free entitlements to support the LA Local Authority to secure sufficient stretched and flexible places to meet parental demanddemand in the Local Authority. The provider must should also make information about their offer and admissions criteria available to parents at the point the child first accesses provision at their setting.
5.3. Providers are not expected to agree to all flexible requests from every individual parent. It is understood that changes to patterns of delivery to more flexible provision will need to be sustainable, and therefore demanded by a number of parents to be financially viable.
5.4. Evidence shows that continuous provision is in the best interests of the child. Where it is reasonably practicable LAs providers should ensure that children are able to take up their funded free hours in continuous blocks and avoid artificial breaks being created throughout the day, for example over the lunch period.
5.5. There BFC is committed to supporting providers to offer flexible places to meet parental need and will therefore work in partnership with providers to achieve this. Providers are encouraged to offer flexible packages of free places, within the following parameters: no requirement that session longer than 10 hours no minimum session length (subject to the requirements of registration on the Ofsted Early Years Register) not before 6.00am or after 8.00pm a maximum of two sites in a single day up to 52 weeks of the year can be outside of maintained school term times can include weekends For providers must be open for at least offering a stretched offer, where fewer funded hours per week are delivered across more than 38 weeks of the year, the total annual allocation of 570 hours (universal) or 1140 (extended) is divided by the providers operating weeks. Stretched offers must be published and accessible to parents. Please see our website for more advice and guidance on calculating a stretched offer If parents choose to take their entitlement with more than one provider, all parties have a duty to ensure there is a system in place to ensure continuity of care and that regular liaison between providers takes place. Where a child attends 2 or more settings per week, it is up to the parent to decide the distribution of free hours between the settings. There is no requirement for providers to be open for 38 weeks of the year or that providers must offer 30 hours in order to receive funding to deliver funded free places.
5.6. However providers must make it clear to parents, prior to the child taking up their place, where their business model restricts access to the full free entitlement. Providers must ensure they hold a fully completed, signed Parent Declaration for the free entitlements for each child they are claiming for. This is an agreement between the parent and the provider detailing what free entitlement funding the provider will claim on behalf of the child. Where multiple the distribution of funded hours is in dispute between providers, BFC will base any funding decisions on the Parent Declaration form. BFC reserves the right to clawback funding where providers are being accesseddo not hold a completed, parents should inform each provider of which is signed Parent Declaration for the main funding claimed. The Parent Declaration does not replace the contract between the provider and the total parent/carer and providers are strongly advised to have signed contracts with all parents. A new Parent Declaration form must be completed and signed for each change in hours claimed at each provision, ensuring that in no circumstance does and attached to the superseded declaration. This provides a weekly claim exceed 15hrs a week for eligible 2 year olds and universal 3 and 4 year olds, or 30hrs a week for eligible extended entitlement 3 and 4 year olds (a maximum full audit trail of 570hrs, or 1140hrs a year). The Parent/Carer Declaration form should detail providers and hours. If, during the termly headcount process, hours are found to exceed the maximum allowance each provider will be informed and must discuss with the parent how funded hours are to be distributed. The parent will be liable to their provider for any free hours claimed over the maximum allowancefor each child. It is not acceptable to cross out/change hours and initial declarations.
5.7. If a provider chooses to be closed on a bank holiday, parent/carers should be able to request movement of any lost early education hours to another point in the week/funding period, within the operational capacity of the provider. Providers are encouraged to accommodate these requests where possible.
5.8. Providers can choose not to deliver funded places.
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Sources: Provider Agreement for Funding Free Places for 2, 3 and 4 Year Olds