Childminding Information sessions March 2014

Childminding Information sessions
March 2014
Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years
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Welcome
PACEY Nottinghamshire Team updates
• Our contract will continue until March 2015.
• A reduced budget and team will mean a
different service delivery.
• From 1st April 2014 the LA will be working
across 3 localities not 7 districts
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These are:
Broxtowe
Gedling
Rushcliffe
Sue Crighton
Sally Watson
Bassetlaw
Michelle Fish
Newark/Sherwood Kay Dixon
Ashfield
Mansfield
Jacky Kirk
Denise Elliott
Local Authority updates
• Local Authority has had another budget cut with
ongoing reductions over the next two years.
• Undertaken another restructure. Teams
including specialist teacher team will be
working across the 3 localities.
• Have taken onboard the concerns raised at the
two focus groups recently held for childminders.
• PACEY and PsLA contracts to go out to tender
by end of next financial year.
Childminder Agencies
The LA are waiting for the outcome of the
agency pilots before they commission any
future contract with us.
• There are 20 organisations delivering
different agency models.
• Still awaiting confirmation of costs to both
parents and childminders as Ofsted
haven’t yet said how much the cost will be
for the agency to be registered with them.
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• As there is no endpoint for the pilots/trials
set by Government information continues
to be vague.
• The first agencies are expected to be able
to register and be inspected by Ofsted
from 1st September 2014 subject to the
passage of legislation.
• Childminders do not have to join an
agency. They can remain independent
and be registered by Ofsted.
Ofsted Updates
Ofsted and inspection
updates
• Requires Improvement replaces satisfactory
• Frequency of inspection for ‘Inadequate’ and
‘Requires Improvement’.
• Locally, ‘Satisfactory/Inadequates’ and
complaints receiving inspection.
• End of this EYFS inspection cycle ends July
2016.
• Stronger focus on the characteristics of
teaching and learning
• Early Years Outcomes document
Driving Improvement
More support for providers to get to good
Making it
harder for
unskilled
providers to
enter the
sector
Requires
Improvement
Inadequate
Less tolerance for
providers who just
don’t improve
Stronger action to shut down providers
where we have concerns
During the Inspection
• Judge children’s progress
• Observations of activities and routine
• Case tracking
• Observations – including joint observation
• Check a small sample of policies
• How you comply with other legislation
• Work with assistants
Taken from Conducting Early Years
Inspections ref no 1200877
Characteristics of effective
teaching & learning
Ofsted define teaching to include:
Interaction during planned and child initiated
play, communicating and modelling
language, sharing and explaining,
encouraging and questioning.
More can be found on the Ofsted Evaluation
Schedule ref no 120086
Importance of Early Years –
What Ofsted tell us
• By the time children reach 5 years of age too many
are not well prepared for the transition to school.
The picture is worse for those from disadvantaged
backgrounds.
• Almost a quarter had not reached a secure level of
personal, social and emotional development, by the
end of the EYFS.
• Over a quarter not reaching expected levels in
communication and language.
• Just over half 52% reach a good level of
development. You can read this full report on
www.ofsted.gov.uk/accessandachievement
‘Getting it right first time’
Effective EY leaders:
Have a clear vision of what they are trying to
achieve; they are absolutely determined to
‘get it right first time’.
Have high expectations of children and
adults alike.
Are highly qualified and experienced, with
very good EYFS knowledge.
Know exactly what good and better teaching
looks like, how children learn best
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Know what they need to do to bring about
improvement, leading by example.
Expect and encourage staff to be involved
and move at the right pace.
Are not afraid to challenge poor performance
and develop a well-qualified team
Understand the correlation between highly
qualified staff and the quality of provision.
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/getting-itright-first-time-achieving-and-maintaining-highquality-early-years-provision
RAG tool (Red, Amber, Green)
A quality check list including the
requirements of the Early Years
Foundation Stage (EYFS) and the
childcare register.
It should be used to evaluate your practice,
latest changes are highlighted in yellow.
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Early Years Prime Area Tracking tool
Written by the Nottinghamshire Local
Authority Early Years Specialist Teacher
Team, covers the 3 prime areas of learning
development.
• Personal, Social & Emotional
Development.
• Communication & Language.
• Physical Development.
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Letters sent by Minister for Education
and Childcare Elizabeth Truss
Two letters have recently been sent out from
the Minister for Education and Childcare
Elizabeth Truss; one letter is to all the
Registered Childminders in England, the
second letter is to all of the Local Authorities
in England.
The first letter was sent out to all Registered
Childminders to inform you about the
current Government reforms that the
Government feel are designed specifically
to make your role as a childminder easier
and also attract new people into the
childminding profession.
The Government reforms are focussed on:
• Early Education funding for 2, 3 and 4 year
olds
• The introduction of Childminding Agencies
• Working with schools
The second letter sent to each Local
Authority in England; this letter focuses on
how councils can achieve high quality
affordable childcare provision in their area.
The Government suggestions are:
• Extending school nursery opening times.
• Flexibility of the 15 hours funded places in
Nursery.
• School Nurseries taking 2 year olds.
The letter from Elizabeth Truss also asks each
Local Authority the following questions:
• Is the new entitlement for disadvantaged two-yearolds reaching eligible families, and if not, what is
being done to ensure it does?
• What decisions are being made by your schools
forum to improve the local offer, in particular to
support independent providers such as childminders?
• Are there plans for childminder agencies in your area,
to make it easier for more people to take up
childminding?
• Are you satisfied that the available resources are
being used in the best way to serve your residents?
Early Learning for Two Year Olds
(Previously: Two Year Free Entitlement)
Good and Outstanding childminders are able to offer
the Early Learning for Two Year Olds. It is 15 hours
funded childcare a week. The rate of pay is £5.09
an hour and to provide care for 570 hours or 38
weeks annually.
Childminders delivering this care are expected to be
Local Authority or PACEY approved. They will
deliver high quality childcare, engage with the
PACEY team and attend Continuous Professional
Development (CPD) training/workshops.
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If you do not already have a Good or
Outstanding grade from Ofsted but
engage with the Nottinghamshire PACEY
team and have begun the PACEY -RAG
Quality Pathway document it may still be
possible for you to care for a funded 2
year old.
It is parental choice as to who provides this
care i.e. registered nursery or childminder.
All local authorities in England offer the 15
hours funded early education to some of the
most disadvantaged two-year-olds.
There will be another £755 million over the
next year from the Department of Education
to fund 40% of England's two year olds.
Numbers of children accessing this entitlement
are steadily rising. We anticipate the
numbers here in Nottinghamshire this
September 2014 to reach 3,700.
In Nottinghamshire the eligibility criteria for this
entitlement will be extended from April 2014
to include:
• Free school meals
• Looked after children
• Low income families
• Special educational needs/disability
Nottinghamshire local authority is struggling to
place these two year olds. In many districts the
local playgroups and nurseries are now full. So
the Local Authority is strongly encouraging the
children centre’s and parents to use childminders.
Your local children centre would welcome you
if you went in, introduced yourself.
When placing the two year olds the children’s
centre workers are not always aware of the
childminders in their locality, those within
walking distance or perhaps those willing to
drop off/pick up.
Support with the placement and any relevant
paperwork can be given by the PACEY
Nottinghamshire Team on 020 8290 2442.
Contact Nottinghamshire PACEY Team, or local
Children’s Centre or the Two Year Free
Entitlement Team in County Hall.
Emma Lupton,
2 Year Entitlement Team
Early Years & Early Intervention
Children Families & Cultural Services
County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham
NG2 7QP.Telephone: 0115 977 2510
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk
DfE
The Regulation of Childcare
Consultation report and Government
response Feb 2014
• Following on from More Affordable Childcare in
July 2013 the Government launched a public
consultation on “The Regulation of Childcare”.
• This consultation sought views on proposals to
amend the childcare regulatory system.
• Ten questions were consulted on, the ten
proposals are as follows.
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• During April 2014 the DfE, subject to
parliamentary approval, attend to amend
the necessary regulations to bring about
these ten proposals with the view to them
coming into force in September 2014.
• The DfE also propose to revise the EYFS
which will reflect the following proposals.
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• Q1. The Gov will proceed to replace the
General Childcare Register with a new
Child Safety Register and align
safeguarding and welfare requirements
from birth to age seven.
• Q2. The Gov will remove the requirement
for out-of-hours provision for children
attending school reception classes to be
guided by the EYFS learning and
development requirements.
• Q3. The threshold will remain at two hours for
informal looked after children however the Gov
intend to raise the threshold for compulsory
registration to three hours where care is provided
both “in friendship” for reward and in domestic
settings only.
• Q4a. The Gov plans to go ahead with
streamlining the registration process by enabling
providers to register multiple premises without
completing separate applications each time.
• Q4b. The Gov is proceeding with its proposal to
give greater flexibility to childminders so that they
can operate on suitable non-domestic premises
for part of the working week.
• Q5. The Gov will align essential safeguarding and
welfare requirements for all registered providers from
birth to age seven with some additional duties for care
of under-fives. The Gov is committed to reducing
unnecessary prescription and giving providers
increased flexibility and trust professionals judgement.
• Q6. The Gov proposes to remove the requirement that
new childminder training ‘Introduction to home-based
childcare/CYPOP5’ no longer needs to be local
authority approved. This is because the Gov believe
by opening up the market there will be improved
access to training from a range of providers. Ofsted
will continue to interview prospective childminders to
ensure they meet the necessary registration
requirements.
• Q7. The Gov will also remove the requirement
that childminder paediatric first aid courses no
longer have to be local authority approved, but
will make it clear what the training should cover.
• Q8. The Gov will simplify the requirement on risk
assessment and focus on practicalities rather
than bureaucratic process. Providers must
ensure children and staff are not exposed to risks
and be able to demonstrate to Ofsted how they
are managing risks.
• Q9. The Gov intends to align requirements for outof-hours providers (for children aged 5 to 7 years)
with requirements for maintained schools. This
means there must be sufficient staff as for a class of
30 children during a school day. Providers on the
new child Safety Register will still be required to
have sufficient numbers of staff to support safety
and ensure that children are not left unattended.
• Q10. The Gov will proceed with introducing some
additional requirements for five to seven year olds
to bring them in line with the Early Years Register.
MASH –
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub
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Early Help Unit
Contact details: 01623 433500
Email address: [email protected]
Postal Address:
The Early Help Unit, Meadow House
Littleworth, Mansfield NG18 2TB
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Key Functions of the Early Help Unit
• To provide information and advice for
professionals and families on Early Help
Services and the Early Help Assessment
(EHA)/Common Assessment Framework
(CAF) process in Nottinghamshire.
• To hold a register of initiated and
completed EHA/CAF’s and cases referred
to the Complex Case Resolution meetings.
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• To be the ‘front door’ for accessing targeted
support services (8-18years) where details of
local Children’s Centres are not known.
• Provide information packages to MASH.
• Analyse cases that MASH assessed as not
meeting the threshold for Children’s Social
Care as set out in the Nottinghamshire
Pathway to Provision document to determine
whether an early help service can be offered.
If MASH does not accept referral then Early
Help Unit can advise and support.
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Nottinghamshire County Council
Safeguarding Evaluation tool
Nottinghamshire County Council have introduced a
new evaluation tool for providers to use to ensure
that their provision and practice is compliant with
current legislation.
It is designed to help you become more
knowledgeable and confident in applying
safeguarding.
Whilst it is essential to have safeguarding policies
and procedures in place, safeguarding goes
beyond this and is about preventive measures and
effective systems being in place.
Internet Safety
Do you and the children you care for use?
• A mobile phone
• The internet
• Social Networking
• Face book
• You tube
• MSN
• Snap chat
• Xbox
• Play Station
• Nintendo DS
 If the answer is yes then you must read the E –Safety
handout to find out how to protect your child in the virtual
world.
 www.ceop.police.uk website offers lots of information how
to stay safe online.
Please
do take the time
to watch these
two short age
appropriate
video clips
Share them with
children and parents
as needed. The
more people that are
internet savvy the
more children we will
safeguard against
internet abusers.
PACEY Membership & Benefits
Helpline
 Factsheets and
guidance
ichild web listing and
 Free legal advice
vacancy matching
 PACEY Local
Free resources
 Members offers
Sample policies
 Homeminder &
Professional
Motorminder
Insurance
Occupation
 Free online training
Standards CPD audit
 Childcare Professional tool (SEF)
Magazine
Member voice
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PACEY Membership & Benefits
• Childminder 12 month membership for £55.00
• Childminder 12 month membership and insurance
for £81.29 + £15.00 one off joining fee
• And now offering childminding assistant
membership for £34.50
• PACEY continue to work with members, for
example PACEY are working with members to
identify types of CPD they would like to undertake
to further improve their practice.
• PACEY continue to be a strong voice in
parliamentary discussions and promote quality
home-based childcare.
Nottinghamshire PACEY
Service Evaluation Questionnaire
Your views are important to us.
Please take 10 minutes to complete this
questionnaire. All questionnaires containing
your contact details will be placed into a free
prize draw.
Questionnaires can be handed in tonight, by
post or email.
Deadline for returning questionnaires is
Tuesday 1st April 2014.
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Useful Early Years websites to sign up
to for newsletters/alerts
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http://www.pacey.org.uk/
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/
http://nottschildmindingassociation.webeden.co.uk/
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/
http://www.capt.org.uk/
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/caring/children/c
hildcare/
• www.ceop.police.uk
• www.childnet.com
• www.thinkyouknow.co.uk
Thank you for attending
And don’t forget for help, support,
guidance and advice
Call us on
020 8290 2442
We’re here to help
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