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Wednesday 19 April 2017
1. Summer term Estimate payments and Provider Declaration
2016-17 extension
Please be
advised that Summer term Estimate payments were released week commencing 3
April to all Free Entitlement settings who have claimed and returned the
Provider Declaration 2016-17 extension form.
Unfortunately we cannot release
payment until we have received your signed Provider Declaration via the Online
Provider Portal. You
may receive a phone call from us if this form is still outstanding.
Please
refer to the broadcast sent on 12 April 2017 for further information regarding
the Provider Declaration 2016-17.
2. Summer Term Free
Entitlement actuals claims - advance notice
The Online Provider Portal will be open for Summer Term
Free Entitlement (FE) actuals claims from Wednesday
26 April 2017. Please do not submit claims prior to this date.
Headcount day: Thursday 11 May 2017
It is important to read the attached information and
follow the guidance entitled “How to claim child-level funding” available at www.westsussex.gov.uk/ecsportal before submitting any information.
Please note:
- All children on your headcount record will
be listed with 0 hours. Therefore,
you must check and update all child
records.
- You can decrease the number of weeks
attended in the term for each child via the Online Provider Portal. However, if
you wish to increase the number of weeks as you are claiming FE as per the
stretched funding option, please contact the Family Information Service. Once
we have enabled this, you will need to log back into the Online Provider Portal
and increase the number of weeks for each child.
Deadline for return: Friday 19 May 2017.
If
you have any queries please contact the Family Information Service on 01243
777807 or email free.entitlement@westsussex.gov.uk
Attachments: Important information FE Summer term actuals 2017.docx
3. Childcare Choices
The Government has launched the www.childcarechoices.gov.uk website for parents, bringing
together existing information about help towards the cost of childcare and the
forthcoming Tax Free Childcare, and the extended 30 hours Free Entitlement,
into one place.
There is a page for providers too www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/providers which gives you the latest
information on how both schemes will operate.
What should you do now?
Free Entitlement providers planning
to offer the extended 30 hours entitlement should use our Childcare
Business toolkit to
help prepare your offer and to find out how to contact us for business help.
All providers are encouraged to
attend their local termly Business and Welfare Events, dates for summer term are
now available in the new Training Schedule. (A training subscription is not required to attend).
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4. Reminder: Online Provider Portal Account Usage Survey
Many thanks to the
settings who have taken the time to complete the survey already, taking a look
at your responses has already given the team some ideas to look into around the
different varieties of guidance we offer.
For the settings who
haven’t yet had a chance to complete the survey, please ensure you take the
chance to give us your views about what you find easy or difficult about the
portal.
The
survey can be accessed here
and is available until 21st April.
5. ICAN’S Chatterbox Challenge
ICAN’s Chatterbox
Challenge 8 – 12 May
2017
Sussex
Community NHS Foundation Trust Health4Families
Team would like you to
consider taking part in the Chatterbox Challenge to raise awareness around the
importance of good speech, language and communication (SLC) skills for all
children.
Chatterbox 2017 will give nurseries and early years
settings the opportunity to participate in five days of fun and engaging
activities designed to get children chatting.
ICAN will provide five downloadable educational
resources designed by speech and language experts, which will focus on the core
areas of children’s early language including:
• Listening and attention
• Understanding what is
said
• Learning and using new
words
• Building sentences and
talking socially
Further resources are available from the
Health4Families Resource list at
www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/wschit
Upcoming Key Dates
Date What's Happening?
Today Summer Term course bookings now open
26/04/17 Portal opens for FE Summer actuals claims
Previously on the Weekly Broadcast
Forgotten to action a broadcast item? You can’t remember which Broadcast the information was in? Below is a list of headlines from the previous 4 weeks' Weekly Broadcasts. If you would like a copy of a previous broadcast please click on the hyperlinks below.
Wednesday 11 April 2017
- Summer term Estimate payments and Provider declaration 2016-17 extension
- 30 Hours Childcare Business Toolkit: live and available now!
- Department for Education (DfE) offers childminder start-up grants for 30
hours
- New Rates for National
Minimum Wage and National Living Wage
- Nurseries share
'Awards for All' funding
- School partnerships with Childminders and Childminder agencies – forming
effective partnership models
Wednesday 5 April 2017
- Ofsted Inspections
- Course cancellation confirmation emails starting April
- (FE providers only) Free Entitlement Leaflet – latest version now available in different languages
Wednesday 22 March 2017
- Indicative Budgets 2017/2018 are in the post - exisiting FE providers only
- Extension to existing Provider Declaration 2016/2017 - Action required by all exisitng FE Providers, otherwise Summer term payments will be affected
- Tax Free Childcare - charity run childcare providers
- We want your views on the Online Provider Portal (OPP)
- Makaton Foundation Workshop for Professionals
- Citizens Advice services in Central and South Sussex
Wednesday 15 March 2017
- Free Entitlement Summer Term Estimates – last call (FE Providers Only)
- Extension to existing Provider Declaration 2016/2017 (Existing FE Providers Only)
- FREE training – happening NOW!
- Online Portal Workshop
- Reminder: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
- Neglect Training Needs Analysis – Have your Say Survey
- Thinking of becoming an Early Years Teacher?
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