Warwickshire County Council Early Years Offer Consultation

Warwickshire County Council

Early Years Offer Consultation


Why do we need to consult?• £70 million reduction across all services by 2014. • £2.3m reduction from Children’s Centres was approved to proceed

by Cabinet in December 2012 against budget of £7.5m. (30% reduction). This was finalised in February 2013.

• We must find new ways to deliver Early Years Services and this is likely to be a significant change.

• Children’s Centres statutory guidance (April 2013) states Local Authorities must consult before any significant changes and explain how we will continue to meet need.

• To allow adequate opportunity and time to respond an online and paper based questionnaire, and these face to face meetings were organised.


Consultation

• All the responses received by the closing date Tuesday 27th August 2013 will be collated and analysed to inform a final report.

• Select Committee• The final report and recommendations will go to WCC

Cabinet members in September 2013.• Cabinet decides which proposal will be taken forward

and these decisions will be implemented by April 2014.

• Individuals completing the consultation will not be identified in the report.


Sharing Your views• Complete questionnaire online

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/consultation

• By emailing your views to [email protected]

• By posting a questionnaire to Early Years Offer Consultation


Saltisford Office Park

Ansell way

Warwick

CV34 4UL

• By attending a public consultation event

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/consultation

mailto:[email protected]


The Proposed Model


Group and collaboration model

• Group – one governance, single inspection, single inspection report

• Collaboration – different governance, single inspection, separate reports


Three options for Children’s centres

• Option 1 – Early Years offer provided through groups and collaborations of children’s Centres. No Children’s Centres would close under this proposal.

• Option 2 – Early Years Offer provided through groups and collaborations of children’s centres. Six children’s Centres would close or cease to provide the offer under this proposal

• Option 3 – Early Years offer provided through 33 single centres. Six children’s centres would close or cease to provide the offer under this proposal.

• Option 1 is the current preferred option but this may change as a result of public consultation.


How these proposals will affect Kenilworth?

• Option 1 – Group or Collaboration. We are proposing a collaboration model for the two Children’s Centres in Kenilworth

• Option 2 – none of the proposed closures in option 2 affect Kenilworth, so still collaboration as described in Option 1

• Option 3 – none of the proposed closures affect Kenilworth so under this proposal both would operate as single centres


How these changes will affect Rugby?

• Option 1 – A group model commissioned to include Claremont, Boughton Leigh, Newbold, Oakfield, Hillmorton and Cawston, Dunchurch and Wolston

• Option 2 – Proposed closure of Dunchurch Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Remaining run as a group.

• Option 3 – Same proposed closure as above but remaining centres all run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect Warwick?

• Option 1 – a group or collaboration model is proposed to include Warwick Children’s Centre and Nursery School and Westgate & Newburgh Children’s Centre

• Option 2 - as no closures proposed for Warwick group or collaboration as in Option 1.

• Option 3 – as no proposed closure for Warwick both centres continue to run as single centres


How these changes will affect South Warwickshire?

• Option 1 – a group model is proposed to include Badger Valley, Wellies (Wellesbourne), Lighthorne Heath. Southam Children’s Centre to be commissioned as a single centre but expected to work in collaboration with the 3 other centres.

• Option 2 – Proposed closure of Wellesbourne Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Remaining centres run as a group but expected to work as a collaboration with Southam.

• Option 3 - Same proposed closure as above but remaining centres all run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect South West Warwickshire?

• Option 1 – a group model is proposed to include Alcester, Studley, Stratford & Clopton Children’s Centres

• Option 2 – Proposed closure of Clopton Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Remaining run as a group.



How these changes will affect Leamington?

• Option 1 – a group model is proposed to include Lillington, Kingsway, Whitnash, Sydenham & Milverton

• Option 2 – Proposed closure of Milverton Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Remaining run as a group.



How these changes will affect Bedworth?

• 2 areas - Bedworth 1 & 2 working together collaboratively

• Bedworth 1• Option 1 – a collaboration model is proposed to include

St Michael’s and Bulkington Children’s Centres. • Option 2 – as no proposed closure for Bedworth 1, this

is the same as Option 1 .• Option 3 – as no proposed closure for Bedworth 1 both

run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect Bedworth?

• Bedworth 2• Option 1 – a group model is proposed to include

Bedworth Heath & Rainbow Children’s Centres under the governance of Bedworth Heath Children’s Centre and Nursery School.

• Option 2 – as no proposed closure for Bedworth 2, this is the same as Option 1 .

• Option 3 – as no proposed closure for Bedworth 2 both run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect Nuneaton?

• 2 areas - Nuneaton 1 & 2• Nuneaton 1• Option 1 – a group model is proposed to include

Riversley Park, Abbey & Ladybrook Children’s Centre

• Option 2 – as no proposed closure for Nuneaton 1, this is the same as Option 1 .

• Option 3 – as no proposed closure for Nuneaton 1 all run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect Nuneaton?

• Nuneaton 2• Option 1 – a collaboration model is proposed to include

Camp Hill, Stockingford and Park Lane. • Option 2 – . Proposed closure of Park Lane Children’s

Centre as one of 6 closures. Park Lane to focus on delivery of childcare only under this option. Remaining run as a collaboration.

• Option 3 – Proposed closure of Park Lane Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Park Lane to focus on delivery of childcare only under this option. Remaining run as separate Children’s Centres


How these changes will affect North Warwickshire?

• Option 1 – A group model commissioned consisting of Mancetter, Kingsbury, Polesworth and Coleshill that we will expect to work collaboratively with Atherstone NS and CC as a single centre.

• Option 2 – . Proposed closure of Coleshill Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Coleshill to focus on delivery of childcare only under this option. Remaining run as above.

• Option 3 – Proposed closure of Coleshill Children’s Centre as one of 6 closures. Coleshill to focus on delivery of childcare only under this option. Remaining run as separate Children’s Centres


Why this Model?


Why we are proposing this model

• It will have single or aligned management• A consistent and coordinated offer of services across a wider area• The opportunity to flexibly use resources, particularly specialist staff

across the group or collaboration• Provide opportunities for centres to specialise.• Greater efficiency• Reduced Ofsted burden and related paperwork.• Opportunities for greater targeting


What does it mean for your centre?

The proposed offer is to continue to provide the following across Warwickshire Children’s Centres with a more targeted approach across a group or collaboration.

● Groups for children (eg. stay and play, chatter matters)● Groups for parents (eg. adult learning, job clubs, family learning)● Family Support (eg support with finance, housing, emotional issues)● Parenting support (eg. Triple P groups)● Child and family health advice and services (eg. breastfeeding support, health visitor clinic sessions, Family nosh, Toddler nosh, stopping smoking)● Support groups for families (eg with children with an additional need or disability)● Information, advice and signposting on family issues● Nursery education


Formula Funding Delivery Outcomes

0-5 populationWeighted funding- Family

Income- Levels of

employment- Health

Deprivation and disability prevalence

- Levels of Education Skills and Training

- Barriers to Housing and Services – Rural factor

- Crime

Currently£7.5m

Services to be provided will include:- Early Learning- Family Support- Child and Family

Health services- Parenting

Support- Support for

Speech and Language

- Adult and Community Learning

- Specific groups that meet local need e.g. children with disabilities

School ready- Completion of 2

year olds Health Check

- Take up of 2 year offer to those eligible

- Increase breastfeeding

- Reduction of childhood obesity

- Improving education, skills and training

- Support people back into work

- Reduction in families claiming benefit

- Smoking cessation

£2.3m

Reducing by £2.3m


School ReadinessGroupings

EYFS School Readiness Score Indicies of Multiple Deprivation Score

Group County National Group County National

North Warwickshire 66.15%

67% 64%

16.46

15.23 21.69

Bedworth 1 57.33% 22.86Bedworth 2 64.19% 20.09Nuneaton 1 60.67% 20.08Nuneaton 2 51.78% 27.46Rugby 67.78% 14.36Southam 73.98% 8.40South Warwickshire 74.90% 10.53South West Warwickshire 71.40% 11.16Kenilworth 78.76% 6.77Leamington 64.07% 13.65

Warwick 77.75% 11.96

Worse than the county average Worse than the national average

EYFS School Readiness (2012)% of pupils achieving 6+ in the seven scales of PSE and CLL and 78 points plus across all scales (state funded pupils in Warwickshire Schools)

IMD deprivation score (2010)

The average overall deprivation score of all Lower Super Output Areas for each Children Centre Grouping as calculated in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) report, DCLG, 2010. The higher the score, the more deprived an area.


Questions


Sharing Your views• Complete questionnaire online

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/consultation

• By emailing your views to [email protected]

• By posting a questionnaire to Early Years Offer Consultation


Saltisford Office Park

Ansell way

Warwick

CV34 4UL

• By attending a public consultation event

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/consultation

mailto:[email protected]


Documents

Warwickshire County Council Early Years Offer Consultation