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Wednesday 16 August 2017
1. Extended Free Entitlement and Inclusion Funding
Provision
On Wednesday 16 August
all early years providers in receipt of Inclusion Funding for the Autumn Term
were emailed consultation documents relating to the future provision for
Inclusion Funding in light of the Extended Free Entitlement.
If
you have had Inclusion Funding agreed for the Autumn Term, please ensure that
you look out for this email. We are keen to hear your views as providers, so
please do complete the Proposals Feedback Form and return to inclusionteam@westsussex.gov.uk.
The deadline for responses is Tuesday 22
August 2017.
2. Online Provider Portal – Planned Maintenance
Please be
advised that the Online Provider Portal (OPP) will be unavailable between midnight
Friday 18 August and Monday 11 September whilst we upgrade our technology. This
affects all tasks within the OPP (including
Free Entitlement submissions, course booking requests and profile forms).
To book
spaces on courses whilst the OPP is unavailable please contact the Family
Information Service on 01243 777807, please ensure you have your training
subscription number available.
Our FIS
childcare website will be unavailable to the public for one day only on
Thursday 31 August.
Our telephone and
email services will be operating a reduced service during this time, however once
the enhancements are in place, the benefits you will receive include:
- carrying out instant checks of 30
hour validity codes at the point of parent enquiry
- submitting
all FE claims via the funding tab
- faster
notification of EYPP outcomes via the OPP
- parents
receiving an instant decision about their FE 2 year old application
- more detailed funding
summary/breakdown
Further
updates will be provided via the weekly broadcasts.
3. Tax Free Childcare compensation
Families who have missed out on Tax-Free Childcare
due to technical problems with the Childcare Service website may be able to
claim compensation from the Government. Further
information is available at Gov.uk.
In case of any
queries, please be aware that this Childcare Service compensation is regarding
Tax Free Childcare, and is NOT applicable to the 30 hours Free Childcare. If families
have technical problems relating to the 30 hours free childcare application
they should call the HMRC helpline on 0300 123 4097.
4. Termly Network Meetings
The IPEH
service remains committed to providing early years settings with support and
information to enable you to remain up to date with current developments and to
have opportunities to work with our staff and with each other to develop and
maintain high quality practice.
As part of
our universal offer to settings, we offer regular network meetings for all
settings. The dates for the autumn term network meetings are available in the new
Training Schedule available from www.westsussex.gov.uk/trainingschedule. There have been some changes made
which we feel will allow us to provide you with support and respond to local
needs more effectively.
INCO
Network and Childminder Events will
continue to run each term.
Early Years
Learning and Development Networks will continue to run in the autumn and spring
terms. In the summer term, we will no longer run these networks to allow time
for settings to plan and implements transition plans for children moving on to
other settings and to attend local Transition Events with schools.
Business
and Welfare Events will be planned and organised at a local level to respond to
the needs. The format, regularity and content of these will be decided by the
local teams in response to needs of the local settings. These events will be
advertised to all local settings. If you have any suggestions for the network
meetings, please share them with your EYCAs in your local Hub.
5. Making the 30 hour offer work for disabled children
and children with SEN
This
series of Learn Explore and Debate events for practitioners will have a
specific focus ‘Making the 30 hour offer work for disabled children and
children with SEN’.
These FREE events aim to:
- Improve knowledge
of what high quality SEND provision looks like (e.g. learning from members
of SEND advisory Board)
- Support setting to
know where to go for help, e.g. on how to use the disability access fund
or access funding via inclusion fund
- Signposting to
resources to support sector
For more information, including the full agenda, and to book your place,
please click on the relevant link below:
York
- 20th September
London
- 21st September
6. Chichester ‘Trauma and Resilience’ Film Event
The award winning documentary film ‘Resilience’ is being shown alongside a panel discussion and
presentation specifically designed to support the children’s workforce in
disarming the after effects of trauma (the fear and anxiety that can be a
barrier to learning for children who have had disrupted early years).
This event is a community based CPD event that will offer information,
explanation and strategies for professionals working in schools, nurseries,
children and family centres, looking after children in their own homes and
primary care settings. It will also be an opportunity to network with
practitioners from a range of disciplines to share knowledge and best practice
locally.
Date: Saturday
7 October 2017, 1pm - 4pm
Venue:
University of Chichester (Chichester Campus)
Tickets:
£7 (all profits go to PASCO)
Booking required: media@beaconhouse.org.uk
Please see the
attached document for further information.
Attachments: resilience.pdf
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Upcoming Key Dates
Date What's Happening?
18/08/2017 Online Provider Portal unavailable until 11/09/2017
21/09/2017 Headcount Day
28/09/2017 FE Actuals Deadline
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 7 August 2017
- Ofsted Myth-busting Videos
- Health4Families Programme - Healthy Eating Campaign
Wednesday 26 July 2017
- FE Frequently Asked Questions
- Information from HMRC - How parents who’ve applied for 30 hours already can re-access their account.
Wednesday 19th July 2017
- URGENT: Eligibility Codes for 30 hours (FE PROVIDERS ONLY)
- Updated Operational Guidance (FE PROVIDERS ONLY)
- Free Entitlement (FE) – Frequently Asked Questions
- Baby Buddy - Raise the Awareness!
- Let’s get moving shall we?
- Please help improve our Stay Well this Winter advice
Wednesday 12 July 2017
- Deadline Today - Free Entitlement Autumn Term Estimates reminder (FE Providers Only)
- 30 hours Promotional Materials
- Supervised Contact Vacancies
- Childcare Providers Survey
- Autumn Term Training Schedule
- Makaton Foundation Workshop for Professionals
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