1. Ensuring sufficient high quality places for two year olds Responding to change Ann Van Dyke South Region Lead

2. What I will be covering  Where are we now?  The mixed market of early years providers  Issues facing the sector  What’s working

3. Research tells us... “ The Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary (EPPSE) research shows children who go to pre-school are projected to earn £27,000 more during their career than those who don’t. They are also more likely to get better GCSE results - the equivalent of getting 7 Bs compared to 7 Cs. ” DfE press release 9 th September 2014

4. Where are we now?  Where have we been?  Where are we headed?

5. Keeping it real for families

6. What resources ?

7. “The early years entitlement should now be viewed as part of our mainstream education offer in this country” Elizabeth Truss MP Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare

8. The role of the local authority  Identifying and supporting families to take up the offer  Ensuring sufficient high quality provision  Providing information  Delivering some services and enabling choice for families  Ensuring accountability

9. What does this mean for you and your early years sectors?

10. Ensuring sufficiency through:  Choice  Diversity  Sustainability  Quality  Partnership

11. Balancing the books

12. Opportunities for all in a mixed market  Childminders  Schools and academies  Private Day Nurseries  Voluntary sector  Children’s Centres  Independent schools

13. What are providers already doing?

14. Changes to how places are delivered  Changes to physical space  Changing age bands and groups  Not just space – think about hours in a week!  Transitions from 2 year old offer to 3 year old offer…

15. Stretching the offer  570 hours  Not just 3 hours per day or only 15 hours per week  More than term time only

16. The added value the sector brings

17. But what a ride.

18. Mixed issues for a mixed economy ?  The changing shape of demand  Staffing  Buildings  Leases  Funding rates, security and sustainability

19. Providers also report  Large numbers of children with behavioural difficulties  Speech and language delay …but large and lasting opportunities too!

20. What investment is having the greatest impact ?

21. Telling eligible families about their legal entitlement

22. All the while, keeping the sector informed and able to respond…

23. …through:  Ensuring public accountability and transparency  Removing barriers to growth  Information  Supporting opportunities to expand  Retaining a focus on quality  Business support

24. And finally…

25. Finding out more http://www.local.gov.uk/knowled ge-hub www.hempsall.com