Simona
15-05-2013, 08:13 PM
ncma has clarified their position on future projects funded by the DfE
This was posted on Local:
'Now the DfE has made public the projects it will be funding over the next two years, PACEY can announce it is finalising its involvement in two of them, with NCB and Action for Children. You can find out more here www.**************/.../pacey_announces_partnerships.aspx.
The focus will be on supporting existing childminders as well as recruiting new childminders, in areas where currently there is not enough childcare available, in particular to support the roll out of the free entitlement to two year olds, to support children with additional needs or to provide wraparound childcare.
We hope these programmes will go some way to demonstrating how childminders can be supported without the need for a childminder agency.
PACEY did not secure DfE funding for its own project proposal (to establish a quality improvement approach for childminders that did not require an agency to be established ). Also, initial exploration of a potential partnership with Barnardo’s has resulted in a joint agreement not to proceed together on this occasion.' (end)
They will recruit new cms to access the 2 year old funding while existing cms are still struggling to get their LAs to open it up to them
How much of this funding will actually reach cms in terms of support I am quite unclear...maybe you have some ideas
I don't think you will be able to open the link so I am posting it on the Focus Group
This was posted on Local:
'Now the DfE has made public the projects it will be funding over the next two years, PACEY can announce it is finalising its involvement in two of them, with NCB and Action for Children. You can find out more here www.**************/.../pacey_announces_partnerships.aspx.
The focus will be on supporting existing childminders as well as recruiting new childminders, in areas where currently there is not enough childcare available, in particular to support the roll out of the free entitlement to two year olds, to support children with additional needs or to provide wraparound childcare.
We hope these programmes will go some way to demonstrating how childminders can be supported without the need for a childminder agency.
PACEY did not secure DfE funding for its own project proposal (to establish a quality improvement approach for childminders that did not require an agency to be established ). Also, initial exploration of a potential partnership with Barnardo’s has resulted in a joint agreement not to proceed together on this occasion.' (end)
They will recruit new cms to access the 2 year old funding while existing cms are still struggling to get their LAs to open it up to them
How much of this funding will actually reach cms in terms of support I am quite unclear...maybe you have some ideas
I don't think you will be able to open the link so I am posting it on the Focus Group