THURROCK SCHOOLS’ FORUM 21st November 2019 at 9.00a.m Orsett Hall, Jaguar Bar Prince Charles Avenue Orsett, RM16 3HS Contact: 01375 891402 AGENDA Primary Academies Headteacher – Kenningtons Ms J Sawtell-Haynes Headteacher – Abbotts Primary Mrs L James Principal – Woodside Academy Mr E Caines – Vice Chair Headteacher – Giffards Primary Mrs N Haslam-Davis CEO - Catalyst Academies Trust Mr T Parfett Headteacher- East Tilbury Primary and Nursery Mrs L Coates Primary Maintained Schools Headteacher – To be advised Secondary Academies CEO – Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust Mr P Griffiths – Chair Principal – Harris Academy Chafford Hundred Mrs N Graham CEO - South West Essex Community Education Mr S Munday Trust CEO – ORTU Federation Ltd Dr S Asong Governor – Hathaway Academy Mr S Sweeting Secondary Maintained Schools Headteacher – Grays Convent Mrs P Johnson Special Academy Headteacher – Treetops School Mr J Brewer Headteacher-Beacon Hill Academy Ms S Hewitt Olive AP Academy Executive Headteacher Ms C Hunnisett Non School Members Diocese of Brentwood Mrs M Shepherd Diocese of Chelmsford Miss S Jones 0-11 Representative Ms A Jones 11-19 Representative Dr J Revill 1 Contact Jan Walker. Children’s Services (01375 652559) Children, Education & Families, Civic Offices, New Road, Grays, Essex RM17 6SL Teresa Lydon Minutes: Introductory Items Item Item Time Guide 1. Welcome from Chair 1 min 2. Apologies for Absence 2 mins Agreement of agenda, time-guide and notification of ‘Any 3. 2 mins Other Business’ Items for Decision Thurrock Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 4. 20 mins • Presented by Andrea Winstone High Needs Block – Commissioning Intentions and Service Partnership Agreement for School Resource 5. 30 mins Provision • Presented by David May/Malcolm Taylor Dedicated Schools Grant 2019/20 and 2020/21 6. • Presented by David May (there will be a PowerPoint 20 mins Presentation) Items for Information Tuition Support Services 7. 10 mins • Presented by Temi Fawehinmi Free Schools and Academies Update 8. • Presented by 5 mins 2 Contact Jan Walker. Children’s Services (01375 652559) Children, Education & Families, Civic Offices, New Road, Grays, Essex RM17 6SL Teresa Lydon Minutes: Schools’ Forum Forward Plan • To consider and agree any urgent additions to the 9. 5 mins forward plan, presented by Sarah Williams Closing Items Minutes of the previous meeting held on 26th 10. 5 mins September 2019 11. Matters Arising 5 mins 12. Any Other Business 5 mins Date of next meeting 13. 16th January 2019 at 9.00 a.m Orsett Hall, Jaguar Bar 3 Contact Jan Walker. Children’s Services (01375 652559) Children, Education & Families, Civic Offices, New Road, Grays, Essex RM17 6SL Teresa Lydon Minutes: Thurrock Borough Council Agenda Item No.4 Schools Forum 21st November 2019 THURROCK SCHOOLS FORUM REPORT DATE: 21st November 2019 SUBJECT: Thurrock Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 REPORT OF: Andrea Winstone THE REPORT IS: For Decision 1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 This report is part of the statutory duty as set out in the Childcare Act 2006 which states Local Authorities need to ensure that we are meeting the requirements of early years entitlement with due regard to planning and growth across the Local Authority. 1.2 This report outlines Thurrock’s Annual Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 1.3 The local authority has a statutory duty to provide access to two, three and four year old places for early education and childcare. 1.4 Statutory guidance was revised by the Department for Education in September 2014 which outlines changes in regards to; the provision for two year olds from lower income families, quality expectations, a change in role for local authorities and an emphasis on outcomes. 1.5 The existing Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 reflects the changes in statutory guidance and updates in data, there was no parental survey undertaken due to transition to a new survey portal, however the survey will be repeated for the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2020. The Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 is presented to schools forum for approval. 2.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 2.1 To support further early years & childcare development across the borough where re-generation and new housing is taking place as outlined in the sufficiency report. 2.2 To promote and encourage more schools to consider eligible 2 year old intake. 2.3 That Schools and academies work in continued partnership with the Local Authority in regard to the future move from 15hours entitlement to 30 hours for eligible working parents of their 3 & 4 year old pupils and provide Page 1 of 4 Thurrock Borough Council Agenda Item No.4 Schools Forum 21st November 2019 access to wrap around care and holiday care either on site or supported by in the local area. 2.4 The draft version of the Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 is adopted. 3.0 MAIN BODY OF REPORT 3.1 There are currently 234 providers in Thurrock offering 3679 full time equivalent early education and childcare places for 0-5 year olds. Across Thurrock, 156 childminders (an increase of 66% since 2018) are signed up to deliver 512 early years funded places. There are an additional 43 childminders registered to deliver 111 places who are not currently signed up to deliver early years funded places. 3.2 However, these figures do not take into account how providers use these in their private business for fee paying places, which fluctuates daily according to demand. Fee paying places are difficult to predict as they are business decisions made by providers but they have an impact on the analysis of the sufficiency of early education places and so fee paying returns are monitored on a termly basis. 3.3 Schools and academies can be an obvious choice for development of early education, wrap around care and holiday care, due to lack of premises available for Private, Voluntary or Independent (PVI) provision development, however, with the two year old early education there is a need for the most disadvantaged children to access Good or Outstanding provision (as with all early years providers). 3.4 Thurrock’s take up of three and four year old early education entitlement is 91% compared to a 94% national take up. Take-up of early years entitlements is not compulsory and not all parents will choose to take up some or all of their entitled hours. This adds a further layer of complexity to estimating demand. Increasing demand for places will follow from Thurrock’s continued promotion of, the benefits of early education to parents. 3.5 The provision for two year olds who are eligible through strictly applied criteria, has added to the requirement to meet the demand for early education places. The target for places as at end of March 2019 was 795 which was satisfied by the development of 957 places this is above target, with a total of 634 children placed in the Spring Term 2019. The target places is mainly dependent on 2 year olds from the bottom 40% low income households, notified to the council by the Department for Work and Pensions on a quarterly basis. Page 2 of 4 Thurrock Borough Council Agenda Item No.4 Schools Forum 21st November 2019 3.6 The increase, to 30hrs of early education and childcare for working parents, proposed by the government for 2017 has steadily had an impact on place availability. 4.0 FINANCIAL / RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS 4.1 The Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2019 will not have any impact on the budget Page 3 of 4 Thurrock Borough Council Agenda Item No.4 Schools Forum 21st November 2019 5.0 CONTACT DETAILS OF LEAD OFFICER / AUTHOR If you have any queries or comments in advance of the Schools Forum meeting about this report, please contact NAME: Andrea Winstone ROLE: Andrea Winstone, - Strategic Lead School Effectiveness and SEND E-MAIL: [email protected] PHONE: 01375 652744 | 07827 823614 Page 4 of 4 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA) THURROCK September 2019 September 2019 COPYRIGHT Greater London Authority November 2017 Published by Greater London Authority City Hall The Queen’s Walk More London London SE1 2AA www.london.gov.uk Enquiries 020 7983 4100 Mincom 020 7983 4458 ISBN Photographs © Copies of this report are available from www.london.gov.uk Childcare Sufficiency Assessment – Thurrock September 2019 3 CONTENTS 1. Overall assessment and summary 4 2. Demand for childcare 5 3. Supply of childcare 7 4. Funded early education 14 5. Economic regeneration & new housing 17 6. Prices 20 7. Quality of childcare in our area 22 8. Methodology 23 September 2019 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment – Thurrock September 2019 4 1. Overall assessment and summary Thurrock Council is required by law to ‘report annually to elected council members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare, and make this report available and accessible to parents’.1 The Council has prepared this report in order to meet this duty 1. Having sufficient childcare means that families are able to find childcare that meets their child’s learning needs and enables parents to make a real choice about work and training. This applies to all children from birth to age 14, and to children with disabilities. Sufficiency is assessed for different groups, rather than for all children in the local authority. We use information about childcare sufficiency to plan our work supporting the local childcare economy.’ Statutory guidance on Early Education and Childcare, effective from 1 September 2017. The wording of the 2014 statutory guidance, effective until this date, is identical 1. Overall sufficiency in our area We do not have access to reliable data that breaks down the population by ward of children by individual age groups since the last National Census in 2011. It is therefore difficult to compare the sufficiency of places by individual ward.