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Wednesday 22 November 2017
1. Online
Provider Portal – Planned Maintenance
Please be advised that
the Online Provider Portal (OPP) will be unavailable between midnight Wednesday
29 November and Tuesday 5 December whilst we upgrade our technology.
This will affect all
tasks within the OPP (including Free Entitlement, course booking requests and
the Termly update form). 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.
Parents and carers
will not be able to submit 2 year old Free Entitlement applications between
midnight Sunday 3 December and Tuesday 5 December.
Our FIS childcare
website will also be unavailable to the public for one day only on Tuesday 5
December.
Further updates will
be provided via the weekly broadcasts.
2. Early Years and Childcare Business Conference. Save
the Date. Saturday 17 March 2018
Back by
popular demand, we are excited to announce we will be having our next Early
Years and Childcare Business Conference on Saturday 17 March 2018 at Brinsbury
College, Pulborough.
We are
currently planning the event and would love to hear from you on what you would
like to see on the day.
If you have
any ideas for workshops that would be beneficial please email them to:
IPEH.Practice.Improvement@westsussex.gov.uk
3. Potential Scam – Safety Guide Services
PLEASE BE AWARE: We have been made
aware of a potential scam involving Safety Guide Services who call to offer
some booklets around safety and safeguarding to schools and Early Years providers.
During the call they state that a verbal agreement was made and ask for money
over the phone, or you may receive a pack with an attached invoice.
If
you receive a call or invoice from this company please report to West Sussex
Trading Standards here.
Attachments: SafetyGuide_Booklet
4. Eat Better, Start Better
Our Eat Better,
Start Better
guidance and supporting material has been developed to help early years
providers and practitioners to meet the Early Years Foundation Stage welfare
requirement for the provision of healthy, balanced and nutritious food and
drink.
This new
guidance, updated in 2017 reflects the government’s dietary recommendations for
children aged 6 months to 5 years and sets out the food and drink guidelines
for early years settings in England. Following the advice in this new guidance
when providing food and drink will help you to meet the nutritional
requirements of young children in your care.
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November 2017 Newsletter |
Upcoming Key Dates
Date What's Happening?
29/11 - 5/12 Online Provider Portal closed
06/12/17 Free Entitlement Spring Term Estimates Open
Previously on the
Weekly Broadcast
Below is a list of headlines from
recent broadcasts. Click on the date to view a copy:
Wednesday 15 November 2017
- Bognor Regis Nursery School Conference 2018
- Free Entitlement (FE) Autumn term payments
- Inclusion funding Autumn term payments
- Making Sense of It All
- National Safeguarding Week
- Online Provider Portal Workshops
- Support for childminders from HMRC
- Termly childcare provider updates
Wednesday 8 November 2017
- Have your parents reconfirmed their eligibility for Extended Free Entitlement (FE)?
- The proposed expansion of primary and secondary schools in West Sussex from September 2019
- Free Safeguarding Children Online Training
- Mind Coastal West Sussex Mental Health and Resilience Training Programme
Wednesday 1 November 2017
- Settings offering Extended FE
- Change of email address for the Crawley Hub
Wednesday 25 October 2017
- inclusion Funding Claims for Autumn Term
- Free Entitlement Parent Testimonials
- You said. We did. Termly Childcare Provider Update
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