1. Key Questions for operating a Childcare Community and Early Learning Hub

2. Parental Access Do you have an information board to display leaflets, newsletters and posters? Do you have a webpage to access information online? Do you have a hub champion who can help parents/providers face to face? Do you have flexible opening hours to meet the needs of parents? Do you have a contact telephone number?

3. Provider Access How are you going to display the information in your locality? Do you have a webpage to access information online? Do you have a hub champion who can link with your local providers? How are you going to share your contact details with the providers? Do you have a contact telephone number?

4. Information on your hub area Have you decided the scope of your hub area? (At least 8 providers) Do you have information on the range of providers in your area? Have you arranged a meeting to introduce different providers to each other? Have you thought about meetings/events for parents to meet different providers? Have you thought about how to let parents know when new providers/spaces/events happen? Do you have a way of signing up parents/providers and storing their information?

5. Improve quality of early education/care Has the provider provided it’s latest OFSTED rating? Have the providers all completed an environmental audit and written an improvement plan? How has the hub leader worked with providers to identify areas of improvement? Has the hub written an improvement plan to improve quality? Has the hub begun to think about and arrange CPD for the providers? Has the hub organised a series of CPD meetings for hubs to attend? Are providers linked with other providers for peer to peer mentoring? Is information about local CPD available to providers? Are there sample proformas for providers to use e.g. Audits, planning sheets

6. Blended Childcare Do you have a range of providers? Do you have the availability of all the providers? Have the providers met in order to discuss potential ways of transitioning between locations? Are there regular meetings arranged to enable providers to coordinate with each other/keep the hub updated?

7. Two year old places Do you have information on how providers can get funding for 2 year old places? Do you have information for parents on how to apply for a funded place? Can these providers offer blended childcare if necessary? How are you as a hub going to support quality for two year olds?

8. Journey of the route to blended childcare Providers meet a hub and discuss options of blended childcare available between them Providers work out logistics of transitioning between providers Providers share information with the hub to be put on their database Parents visit the hub look or look at a website and The hub uses their database to look at all the different options of childcare that will meet their needs e.g. Nursery and childminder, after school club and childminder etc Hub gives out contact details of different providers Parent arranges visit with different providers and registers/pays them separately Providers inform the hub of their new availability to update the database

9. Journey of a parent Attends the hub/looks on webpage to find out information about childcare Information/links given to different types of childcare and funding abailable Look at the availability of different providers Give contact details of different providers Parent phones up to arrange visit to provider

10. Journey of a childcare provider Register interest with the hub and provide information about type of care they provide, latest OFSTED etc. Attend meeting/visit hub to find out how the hub will work for them Sign up with the hub providing information about ages/hours/prices etc Work with the Hub to create a shared vision Attend regular meetings/training to keep updated and for training purposes Inform the hub when their availability changes