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Wednesday 16 May 2018
1. Summer term Free Entitlement actuals – final reminder (FE provides only)
A final reminder that
the Online Provider Portal (OPP) is open for Summer term Free Entitlement (FE)
actuals claims and will close midnight 18 May 2018.
Please read the “Free
Entitlement – additional information for providers” on www.westsussex.gov.uk/ecsfreeentitlement and follow the updated guidance
entitled “How to claim child-level funding” available here before submitting any information.
Please refer to the
broadcast sent on 25 April for further information.
2. Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) Summer term claims -
reminder (FE providers only)
A reminder, the Online
Provider Portal (OPP) is open for you to submit your Early Years Pupil Premium
(EYPP) claims.
Important: In order to carry out EYPP
eligibility checks this term we require you to submit the following information
via the OPP ‘Parent/Carer Details’ tab:
- Parent/carer’s full
legal name
- Parent/carer’s date
of birth
- Parent/carer’s
National Insurance or National Asylum Support Service number
For further
information please refer to the broadcast sent on 25 April.
Deadline:
Friday 18 May (midnight).
If you have any
queries please email free.entitlement@westsussex.gov.uk
3. New Format for the 2 year Integrated Review
Please take note of these changes in paperwork for the Integrated 2 year Review and recommendations to settings, together with details of your local
Healthy Child Programme contact.
4. Five to Thrive Training
We still have a few spaces on a new training
course we are running for the first time this month.
The aim of this course promotes the importance
of positive relationships through the implementation of the Five to Thrive
agenda both at home and in the setting. It enables Practitioners to understand
and identify ways to develop meaningful and empowering adult and child
relationships which boost children’s confidence, self-esteem, resilience and
self regulation.
The course details are:
- Course Code: EY221S
- Title: Five to Thrive
- Tuesday 22 May 2018
- 9:30am – 4pm
- Kingston Buci Children and Family Centre,
Shoreham by Sea.
You can book a place on this course on line
using the Online Provider Portal – www.westsussex.gov.uk/ecsportal or by phoning the Family
Information Service on 01243 777807 on weekdays, between 8am and 6pm. Once your booking has been made, we will send you an email within two
days to confirm your booking.
5. Update your Termly Childcare Provider Update form
today!
Did you
know…? Update,
even if you’re full.
Please
submit an updated profile form on the Online
Provider Portal for
this term. For support to update your vacancies, see page 8 in the online guidance.
Reasons you
should submit: it benefits your business!
- When
new businesses or housing developments are proposed in your local area we use your profile and vacancy
information to help identify if new early years provision is required. New settings may open unnecessarily if your
information is out of date and wrong.
- Your
information helps families find
suitable childcare for their children across the county.
-
Free advertisement on our website which has received, on average,
just under 10,000 hits a month.
It benefits families:
-
Families call us for help to find childcare that
meets their individual needs.
- One
of the biggest complaints the FIS
receives from parents is that setting vacancy information is wrong. It wastes
their time and is frustrating for
parents when searching for childcare. Our information is only as good as the information you can give us.
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They use our website to find childcare. The details you provide help them to
make informed decisions on which providers to contact.
You should provide at least a termly update:
-
Update, even if you’re full. Updating is about more than just
free advertising. Out of date information can directly affect your business.
-
If
you have not updated your details in the last year we remove you from our public
list. This is to prevent a breach to the data protection
policy, which you agree to when submitting your profile update.
- The new Early
Education and Childcare statutory guidance (March 2017) requires local
authorities to update setting information at
least once a term.
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Children, Young People and Families (IPEH)
Stakeholder Newsletter
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Upcoming Key Dates
Date What's Happening?
18/05/18
Free Entitlement (FE) Summer Actuals Deadline
Previously on the weekly broadcast
Below is a list of headlines from recent broadcasts. Click on the date to view a copy:
Wednesday 9 May 2018
- Summer Term Inclusion Funding
- Funding Panel Response Times
- Helicopter Stories
- EY Initial Teacher Training at the University of Brighton
Wednesday 2 May 2018
- Early Years transition events – booking reminder
- Summer term Free Entitlement actuals – reminder
- 30 Hours extended FE codes Summer term
- EYPP Summer term claims reminder
- DAF Disability Access Fund claims
- MMR Vaccination reminder
Wednesday 25 April 2018
- Summer term Free Entitlement actuals – now open (FE providers only)
- Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP) Summer term claims (FE providers only)
- Early Years Transition Events
- 2018 – 2019 Early Years Training Subscription Scheme Course Bookings now
open
- Introducting Practice Improvement’s new Facebook page
- Don’t miss out - final chance to book these Early Years courses.
Wednesday 18 April 2018
- Warning over diarrhoea illness linked to West Sussex farm visits
- Summer term Free Entitlement actuals and 30hr codes – advance notice
- Early Years Transition Events
- Paediatric and Adult First Aid Training
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