Early Years Childcare Broadcast

West Sussex County Council sent this bulletin at 27-11-2019 05:03 PM GMT

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Wednesday 27 November 2019

Distribution of funds held in Early Years Dedicated Schools Grant Reserves

Please see attached document detailing the distribution of funds being held in an Early Years Dedicated School’s Grant (DSG) reserve due to an underspend in the financial years 2017/18 and 2018/19.

This has been distributed directly to all funded Early Years providers, including Childminders in proportion to the funding received based on hours delivered in the financial year 2017/18 and 2018/19.

Payments:

Payments will be made as a one–off lump sum adjustment payment on the Autumn 2019 3 & 4 year old term. Once payments are processed you can login to the Online Provider Portal (OPP) and view the adjustment amount via the Autumn term summary page. Please refer to the Actuals guidance available at www.westsussex.gov.uk/ecsportal.

Payments are being processed this week (week commencing 25 November 2019) and will take 3-5 working days to show in your account.

If you have any queries please email free.entitlement@westsussex.gov.uk

Transition Events Important Information heading here

Transitions Events are short briefings to facilitate information sharing between early years providers and schools. The aim is to improve children’s transition experience as they start school in September 2020. These events are held so you can discuss ALL children moving on to school. Children who may need this additional support can also be discussed or time booked directly with the school.

Please book into a session nearest to you. Once school places have been allocated, we will assign meeting times within the session between the school and the setting.

Additional information and dates can be found on the Transition Events web page. To book, search for ‘Transition Event’ on the Learning and Development Gateway. Transitions Events are free to attend.

As these events will be covered by the Privacy Notice, confidential conversations can take place in the open environment of the event. As professionals please respect confidentiality at all times. Please ensure you have shared this notice with parents before the events take place, you would have already done this if the children are claiming Free Entitlement.