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Childcare sufficiency

Information about the sufficiency of childcare within Worcestershire.

Section 6 of the Education Act 2006 sets out the duty of local authorities of securing, as far as is reasonably possible, sufficient places for children aged 9 months to 4 years of age to access their entitlement to funded nursery education. 

In addition, local authorities should secure sufficient childcare to support parents to go back to work or to undertake education or training leading to work.

District based childcare sufficiency maps

Based on the take-up of Nursery Education Funding during the Summer Term 2024, and included the estimated take-up of the expanded entitlement for children under the age of 2 (which beings in September 2024), the following district maps highlight areas of potential insufficiency of funded provision.

Definitions

  • childminder: early years provision delivery by an Ofsted or childminder agency registered childminder
  • group-based: early years provision delivered by private, voluntary and independent organisations
  • school-run: early years provision delivered by a school, including academy, free, LA maintained and independent schools
  • insufficient: the estimated supply of funded early years provision is less than the estimated demand for funded early years provision
  • sufficient: the estimated supply of funded early years provision is greater than the estimated demand for funded early years provision
  • within local community: supply and demand estimations take into account levels within the surrounding wards

District maps

See the district maps below:

  • Bromsgrove district (PDF)
  • Malvern district (PDF)
  • Redditch district (PDF)
  • Worcester district (PDF)
  • Wychavon district (PDF)
  • Wyre Forest district (PDF)

For those with a visual impairment, a written version is available here: Summer Term 2024 Worcestershire County (PDF)

Childcare sufficiency assessment

As part of the LA duty, a Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA) report is produced to set out and consider places available (supply) and potential demand for early years and childcare provision from families in Worcestershire.

  • Childcare Sufficiency Assessment 2024 (PDF)

A revised assessment is currently underway. 

Useful links

  • Playwork and out of school settings
  • Schools opening out of school (wraparound) provision
  • Opening an early years or out of school setting
  • Early years in schools

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