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What are we going to do today?

Funding Formula 2009/2010 re early years Presented by Laura McRoberts & David Dilling Thursday 25 September 2008. What are we going to do today?. Outline the DCSF key principles Outline major changes to funding process in Croydon What is to happen next? Identify what you need to do.

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What are we going to do today?

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  1. Funding Formula 2009/2010 re early yearsPresented by Laura McRoberts & David DillingThursday 25 September 2008

  2. What are we going to do today? • Outline the DCSF key principles • Outline major changes to funding process in Croydon • What is to happen next? • Identify what you need to do

  3. DCSF key principles to be achieved • Parents to have access to more flexible options in terms of pattern per week, numbers of hours per day and number of weeks per year • Increased free hours to 15 hours (September 2009 for some and September 2010 for all) • Child count (from 2009), funding methodology and funding to be comparable across all types of provision from (2010) • Methodology to provide stable but targeted funding that is cost efficient and will not fund too many empty places • Expectation that parental agreements operate for a term at a time • Suggest these are not totally compatible

  4. Changes to funding process in Croydon • Agreed number of hours at start of year • Termly counts of hours by child by week • Funding adjustments each term to allow for changes in hours, up and down • £/hour same across all types of settings • Additional funding for children from deprived postcodes and where English is not the first language and for settings that open for longer hours and more weeks – will not be the same • Move to electronic info transfer - (easiest if you use the Capita system)

  5. What is to happen next • Proposals going to Schools Forum • Proposals will then be published on Croydon EdNet in next two weekswww.croydon.lgfl.net and find Finance Matters on HT/admin drop down menu.Link on left side to funding 2009/2010. • Open meetings will be arranged • Return comments by late November 2008

  6. What do you have to do? • Have you supplied- email address?- bank details for funding transfers • Ensure separation of the free entitlement and extra chargeable time or other services and make these clear on each parental agreement • Attend open meetings and respond to consultation as well as adapt ready for the changes!

  7. The Proposed Timetable

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