** EARLY YEARS SINGLE FUNDING FORMULA 2010-11**

Budget Calculator - to allow individual providers to identify their 2010-11 hourly rates and to calculate estimated payments (requires the 6 digit Unique Reference Number, starting with a 5, as used by Management Information on the claim documentation)

Letter to PVI providers 24th February advising hourly rates - Please note the deadline (12th March 2010) for written confirmation concerning the leader qualification supplement

** EARLY YEARS FUNDING FORMULA CONSULTATION**

Consultation Feedback

Consultation Responses

Results Summary

16 October 2009 to 27 November 2009 - CONSULTATION CLOSED

   "Introduction of the Single Funding Formula for Early Years Provision from April 2010 - A consultation document"

   Consultation letter

   Consultation Feedback Form - Response required by 27 Nov 2009

   Budget calculator tool - this is an updated version

   Consultation Workshops

The following dates and venues have been booked provisionally for workshops in support of the Autumn Consultation:

• Weds 4 November, Singleton Environment Centre, Ashford (day sessions)
• Weds 4 November, Radnor Park Kindergarten, Folkestone (evening session)
• Mon 9 November, Winter Gardens, Margate (day and evening sessions)
• Tues 10 November, Bubbles Nursery, Eastry, Sandwich (day sessions)
• Weds 11 November, Aylesford Priory, Malling (day sessions)
• Thurs 12 November, KCC Offices, Joynes House, Gravesend (day sessions)
• Mon 16 November, Oakwood House, Maidstone (day sessions)
• Weds 18 November, Hop Farm, Paddock Wood (evening session)
• Thurs 19 November, KCC Offices, Avenue of Remembrance, Sittingbourne (day sessions)

Day sessions are provisionally scheduled for 9.30am to 11.30am, 12.30pm to 2.30pm and 3.00pm to 5.00pm.

Evening sessions are provisionally scheduled for 6.15pm to 8.15pm.

Joining instructions:

If you wish to attend one of the above workshops please contact Kay Lee (01622-694549 or email yat-kay.lee@kent.gov.uk) indicating which session you would like to attend.  Details will then be confirmed.

Terms of Reference

To select a representative from the PVI sector to sit on the Schools Funding Forum

• Advise on proposed developments and changes to the Early Years funding mechanism
• Provide a focus for all Early Years providers within the county ensuring that the views of all types of providers are represented
• Provide a steer for any work undertaken on behalf of the Schools Funding Forum
• Raise and discuss relevant issues on Early Years funding with matters that relate to the use of central resources to be represented by the Chairperson at the Funding Forum
• Act as a consultative group on specific issues as they affect Early Years funding
• Provide general advice on strategic and operational issues affecting Early Year’s budgets
• Act as a consultative group on issues that affect the local authority’s sufficiency duty.

Membership

• Early Years Sub Group Membership  [June 2009]

Meeting  Dates Academic Year 2009-10

• 15 September 2009, Oakwood House, Maidstone 
• 09 December 2009, Oakwood House, Maidstone 

Agendas and Meeting

Sub Group Clerk

If you have any enquiries about the EYSG, please contact Darren Honey, Principal Accountant, on 01622 694949.

Related Documents

• Paper to Funding Forum
• Project Plan
• DCSF Interim Guidance - Extension to Free Entitlement Offer
• DCSF Interim Guidance - Early Years Funding Formula
• DCSF Support Pack - Two Years Old Pilot
• Provider Cost Analysis - Letter to Providers
• DCSF Update on Single Funding Formula
• Report on Childcare Provider Costs in Kent to inform the implementation of a single funding formula - Pre-school Learning Alliance
• DCSF Practice Guidance July 2009 - Implementing the Early Years Single Funding Formula

Accessing Documents

If you have any problems with accessing documents on the forum sites, please contact the Communication & Information Governance Team on 01622 221201