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Childcare at the Heart of the Community

Childcare at the Heart of the Community. If you are poor and live in a bad neighbourhood; here are your chances.

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Childcare at the Heart of the Community

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  1. Childcare at the Heart of the Community

  2. If you are poor and live in a bad neighbourhood; here are your chances

  3. Investing in early years is as close as it gets to magic without being magic. Parenting support and enriched day care, preferably both together create children with better behaviour and attitudes who will arrive at school with a capacity to learn”Sinclair (2006)

  4. The best start for children The goal is for all parents to have access to good quality early education and childcare for their children and, for childcare provision to be flexible, good quality, affordable and accessible and fit into the lives of families.

  5. The Social Enterprise Model Social enterprises, according to the DTI, “are businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.” Such businesses are seen as contributing to: • raising productivity and competitiveness; • socially inclusive wealth creation; • enabling individuals and communities to foster local regeneration; • demonstrating new ways to deliver public services; • fostering an inclusive society with an active citizenship In addition, where social enterprises involve local people as members, in democratic forms of organisation, they are claimed to have an important social purpose, helping to develop active citizenship.

  6. The Social Entrepreneur Social enterprise is about people. Social entrepreneurs run profitable businesses that reject exploitation and instead choose to invest in society’s most disadvantaged people. ”Allison Ogden-Newton, Social Enterprise London

  7. Can the Community Nursery be that Social Enterprise ? “…we believe that community nurseries have a critical role to play in supporting local families and can offer a more tailored service.”

  8. What does the community nursery offer? • A local childcare service • Strong community roots, more able to reach the vulnerable • Local involvement through volunteering • Flexible, innovative and responsive to filling gaps • History of multi-disciplinary working

  9. Doing more than childcare? Socially inclusive fee structure Signposting Training and qualification offer After school care Intergenerational activities

  10. Employment From parent to volunteer to student to nursery practitioner

  11. Parent Involvement

  12. Social Capital : Articulating our Contribution

  13. Here the main priority is quality, not profit. Here it’s not all new and shiny, not super slick, but you have a quality of people, continuity of staff – which makes a difference WCS Queensborough

  14. Challenges • Getting the message across; our social aims • Sustainability and Business Development • Cost Structure and Impact Monitoring • Governance and Parental Involvement • Community Engagement

  15. Next Steps The developing the SE brand… …let’s network

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