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Wednesday 6 September 2017
1. 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 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 as before.
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.
2. Reaching Families Training Workshops for Autumn/Winter
2017
Reaching Families; a
charity who provide services for parents and families of children with Special
Educational Needs and Disabilities are running several free workshops over the
autumn and winter period.
View the list
of worshops here
Please promote these
to your families where appropriate.
3. Parent’s reconfirming their Extended Free Entitlement eligibility – News
Update (FE providers only)
Important Reminder: Not all parents are receiving text or email prompts
to reconfirm with the HMRC. Read this article for advice on what parents should
be doing to remain eligible for Extended Free Entitlement.
Parents who have already received their eligibility
code for Extended FE must re-confirm their eligibility every three
months. Parents should receive a text or email alert from the HMRC to remind
them 4 weeks before their reconfirmation date and again 2 weeks before.
However, we have had reports that this is not happening
consistently and parents are unknowingly dropping out of eligibility. If
parents miss the reconfirmation deadline, they will receive a message
telling them that their eligibility has lapsed, and that they now fall in to
their grace period.
Please
make parents aware that they need to remember to reconfirm and to regularly
check their secure email box on the HMRC government gateway site, rather than
relying on their personal email inbox for reminders.
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Upcoming Key Dates
Date What's Happening?
11 Sep Online Provider Portal due to re-open following planned maintenance
21 Sep Autumn Headcount Day (Free Entitlement)
28 Sep Deadline for Autumn Actuals submission (Free Entitlement)
Previously on the Weekly Broadcast
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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 30 August 2017
- Early Years Inclusion Funding - revised model
- Important info from DfE - 30 hours codes for Autumn Term
- FREE 'Delivering the 30 hours through a partnership approach' events
Wednesday 23 August 2017
- Online Provider Portal Workshop
- Online Provider Portal – Planned Maintenance
- Parents reconfirming their Extended Free Entitlement
eligibility – News Update
- Childcare Providers Survey September 2017
Wednesday 16 August 2017
- Extended Free Entitlement and Inclusion Funding Provision
- Online Provider Portal - Planned Maintenance
- Tax Free Childcare Compensation
- Termly Network Meetings
- Making the 30 hour offer work for disabled children and children with SEN
- Chichester 'Trauma and Resilience' Film Event
Wednesday 7 August 2017
- Ofsted Myth-busting Videos
- Health4Families Programme - Healthy Eating Campaign
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