On the 6th June we will be launching our Parental
Demand Survey. This will form part of our Childcare Sufficiency
Assessment, which is one of Council’s duties under the Childcare Act 2006, to
enable us to assess whether there is sufficient childcare in the city to meet
the needs of parents/carers. We are aiming for as many parents as
possible to complete the survey which will tell us about their current and
future childcare needs and also tell us about their possible requirements under
the new extended entitlement for 3 & 4 year olds from next September.
The survey will be online until the end of June and hard copies of the
questionnaire and postcards publicising the weblink will be available. It
would be greatly appreciated if you could pass this information on and promote
the survey to your parents and carers, we will publish the link shortly and
keep you posted!
Date for your diary – Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
During the last 2 weeks of June we will be conducting the
Provider Survey as part of our Childcare Sufficiency Assessment. This is
a survey to tell us about various aspects of your childcare business and it
will be mapped against the results of the Parental Demand Survey to give us a
detailed picture of whether we have sufficient childcare in the city. We
are aiming to have 100% of providers return this questionnaire and will provide
all the necessary support to enable you to do so. More information will follow
in due course, but please pencil some time in your diaries now to complete this
towards the end of June.
Free entry for kids to first East Midlands Flower
Show
If you're not lucky enough to be going to the Chelsea Flower Show, you can
now get tickets for the first East Midlands Flower Show at Newstead Abbey on
Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 June, and you can get a great deal on early bird
tickets until Friday 10 June.
Early bird tickets are just £8 (plus booking fee) for adults, but children under
16 go free and the ticket includes free parking and free entry to Newstead Abbey
itself.
Gardening celebrities speaking at the show include last year's BBC/RHS Great
Chelsea Garden Challenge winner Sean Murray, TV presenter Alan Mason and John
Stirland from BBC Radio Nottingham. There will be beautiful show gardens, a home
and garden marquee, plant, gift and garden furniture stalls, local food and
drink and fun family activities.