Provider payments:
1.What is the current timeframe for financial year 2024/25 on which you pay childcare providers for the delivery of funded early education and childcare places? (ie. Do you currently pay providers monthly, termly, offer a choice or use a different timeframe?
• Monthly
• Termly
• Mix/Provider choice
• Other approach

2. If you pay termly do you split the funding, please provide details of how this is done? (eg 75% at the start of term and 25% towards the end?)
81% before start of term 19% in Week 11 of term.

3. If you pay termly, when in the term do you make the first payment to providers?
In week 11 of previous term based on indicative budget

4. If you pay monthly, when in the month do you make the payment to providers?
Not applicable

5. Have you consulted with providers in the last two years on how you make payments to them for the delivery of funded early education and childcare places?
Currently planning consultation for childminders

Capital Grants:
The government announced £100m of capital support through the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant in autumn 2023. The fund was to support the provision of new places to support the expansion of:
• 30-hours entitlement places for children aged 9-months to 3-year-olds
• wraparound provision for primary school aged children

6. How much (in £) was your local authority’s allocation from central government under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme?
£309,618.40

7. How much (in £) of your local authority’s allocation under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme has been distributed to any eligible recipients?
0 – due to sufficient places in the first two roll outs this has been kept to be allocated to support the roll out in September 2025

8. How much (in £) of your local authority’s allocation under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant scheme has been distributed to:
a) private, voluntary or independent providers in the early years sector: NA
b) School based settings: NA
c) Local authority infrastructure projects: NA

9. Please provide a % breakdown of the distributed funds under the Childcare Expansion Capital Grant has been spent between:
a) Children taking up an early years place through the expanded 30-hours entitlement for qualifying working parents: NA
b) Increasing the supply of wraparound childcare for primary-school aged children. NA

Childcare Sufficiency Assessments:
10. Have you completed a Childcare Sufficiency Assessments in the last two years? Please provide a copy of this CSA report.
Current report to members in process.