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Consultation Questions

1. How do we ensure children are fully supported at the transition stages throughout their early-learner journey? What support should be provided to ensure that the ELC workforce and teachers have the skills, knowledge and capacity to support transitions?

Comments
Joint working time available collegiately.

Sharing of tracking, monitoring and ASN information.

Pupil visits to school and from school.

Named key worker.

2. What support is required to ensure that the ELC workforce have the skills, knowledge and capacity to deliver high quality provision for two year olds? How can the ELC sector best meet the specific learning, developmental and environmental needs of two year olds? What approach should be taken on the transition for these children when they turn three?

Comments
Contact with named Health visitor and Key Workers.

Training of developmental stages, milestones and expectations of our 2 year olds.

Individualised targets for pupils within the centre.

3. How can the qualification routes and career paths that are open to early learning and childcare practitioners be developed to ensure that the ELC sector is seen as an attractive long-term career route?

Comments
Qualifications include 2year old training.

6. What actions should be taken to support increased access to outdoor learning, exercise and play?

Comments
Increased access on campus with suitable outdoor learning environments.

Encouragement of parents and carers to be PVG checked to support on outdoor learning experiences off campus.

7. How could accountability arrangements for early learning and childcare be improved?

Comments
With allocated head teachers and or managers on site full time.

8. What factors must be considered in delivering flexible ELC provision, while continuing to ensure a high quality service? To what extent could funded ELC support parents and carers with non-standard working hours, such as working shifts and weekends?

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Shift patterns for ELC staff.

9. How can we ensure fair and sustainable funding for all providers offering the ELC entitlement?

Comments
Based on pupil roll and ASN requirements.

10. What more can we do to promote and support the involvement of childminders in the entitlement to ELC? What are the barriers, if any, to becoming a childminder? How can we ensure quality while preserving the unique value of home-based care?

Comments
Initial costs of adaptations to homes can be a barrier to childminding.

11. How do we ensure that the voice of children and their families is heard as we plan this expansion?

Comments
On going consultation regarding plans.

Authority led discussions in a central venue for all staff and parents to attend to fully understand and have opportunity to raise questions.

12. How can we ensure equality of access for all children? What barriers do children with disabilities and additional support needs currently face in accessing early learning and childcare? What further action is required to address these barriers?

Comments
Appropriate 1-1 support is hard to access in various authorities.

13. How can we support higher take-up rates amongst eligible two year olds, and other groups less likely to access entitlement?

Comments
Advertising of available childcare.

14. How can more social enterprises, and third sector providers, be encouraged to enter the early learning and childcare sector?

Comments
Costs of PVG covered by the government.

16. How can the broader system for promoting, accessing, and registering for a place in an ELC setting be improved? Please give examples of any innovative and accessible systems currently in place?

Comments
Local press and social media.

17. Do parents and carers face any barriers in accessing support with the costs of ELC provision (beyond the funded entitlement)? What more can we do to ensure additional hours are affordable?

Comments
Taken from wages before tax is applied.

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