Free Early Education Entitlement Contract 2021-2024

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The local authority has a statutory responsibility to have sufficient childcare places in the borough and to pay 95% of the EY block of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) to childcare settings. The DFE guidance says that childcare providers with a “Good”, “Outstanding” or “Not Inspected” Ofsted grades are allowed to offer 2 year old FEEE provision. Payments for services will be for 2, 3&4 year old Free Early Education places. The guidance is obtained from the links below: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/718179/Early_education_and_childcare-statutory_guidance.pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-education-and-childcare--2 All providers who are interested in providing the free early education places go through a compliance check process https://thehub-beta.walthamforest.gov.uk/commissionedtodeliverFEEE. Once approved as a FEEE provider, a contract is issued to the provider and these contracts lasts for 3years. Contracts have been prepared by the legal team for the Early Years team and these contracts are issued by the Early Years team to the providers and signed by legal team. Copies of contracts are held by Legal team and saved on the Early Years O'drive. Once a contract has been signed by the provider, providers are then set up on the payment system (SAP) to make monthly payment through windhsuttle Non procurement process on SAP by the finance team. These contracts have been ongoing since April 2015 and renewed every 3years. Contract value vary according to each childcare provider from £40,000 to £1,000,000 within the 3years period and are paid at an hourly rate on a monthly basis. This is the contract for the period 1st April 2021 - 31st March 2024