Issue - meetings

To consider a recommendation from Cabinet in respect of the inclusion of the scheme for the development of 30 hour childcare places within the Capital Programme.

Resolved:-  That, subject to the funding bid being successful, the inclusion of the DfE capital funded projects into the Capital Programme, be approved in principle.

Mover:-  Councillor Read                       Seconder:-  Councillor Lelliott

Report of the Strategic Director of Children and Young People’s Services

Cabinet Member:     Councillor Watson

Commissioner:         Bradwell (in advisory role)

Recommendations:-

1. That Council be recommended to approve the inclusion of the DfE capital funded projects into the Capital Programme, if the funding bid is successful.

2. That the revised criteria for distribution of local two year old Early Education capital funding to create 30 Hour Childcare Places be approved.

3. That the purchase of an additional module for the existing IT system to support the eligibility checking and processing of payments to providers be approved.

Consideration was given to the report detailed how the introduction of the Department for Education (DfE) 30 Hour Childcare entitlement would come into force in September 2017, and double the entitlement to early education for three and four year olds from fifteen to thirty hours a week for children with working parents. 

To ensure there was sufficient early education provision to meet projected increased demand, approval  was  requested to amend the criteria for allocation of the remaining 2013/14 two year early education capital funding to increase capacity within the childcare sector and to include Department for Education capital funding applied for in Summer 2016 into the Capital Strategy if successful. 

The report highlighted the projected shortfall of childcare/early education places currently available to meet the anticipated demand and the potential capital funding available to increase places

Resolved:-

1.         That Council be recommended to approve the inclusion of the DfE capital funded projects into the Capital Programme, if the funding bid is successful.

2.         That the revised criteria for distribution of local two year old Early Education capital funding to create thirty hour Childcare Places be approved.

3.         That the purchase of an additional module for the existing IT system to support the eligibility checking and processing of payments to providers be approved.