Project Initiation
Planning implementation and assessing parental demand for the flexible free entitlement is a complex task. It involves understanding current patterns of provision, assessing parental demand for flexibility and talking to providers (i.e. schools, playgroups, other sessional providers and childcare settings offering full day-care) about how they can change and adapt their provision to meet the new requirement. Another important part of the process is deciding the exact limits of how flexible to make the entitlement, and communicating with parents about availability.
Case studies
These case studies give examples of how local authorities have
approached developing an overall project plan for tackling the task; working
towards rolling-out the extended flexible entitlement across their
area.
Sunderland's
models for accessing the extended entitlement flexibly, and raising the issues
surrounding each
Worcestershire's system of working and consulting with
providers in a forum to resolve issues
Rochdale
and Derbyshire's projects plans to help you in planning Pathfinder
projects
Rochdale's
explanation on how they developed their plan
Rochdale
and Derbyshire's approach to developing the Pathfinders (Powerpoint
presentation)
Map
of initial 20 pathfinders
This page was last updated on 12 December 2007
