Childcare-Sufficiency-Assessment-Refresh-March-2013-Final-Draft

Day nursery provision: - is registered to take children from 6 weeks to 5 years, on a full time or part time basisdepending on parental need. Day nursery provisions in the main open at 7.30am, there are variances to this withsome opening at 7.00am and others at 8.00am. Further information can be found with the Family InformationService. The closure times in general are 6.00pm with one or two open until 6.15pm.Childminders: - are registered and care for children in their own homes. The care for children aged between 6weeks and 14+ years. They can offer full day care as well as breakfast and after school provision. Details ofindividual childminders can be found with the Family Information Service upon request.Breakfast clubs: - cater for children aged from 3 years to 11 years, some are managed by schools and others aremanaged and registered by voluntary, private or Local Authority. School breakfast clubs open at roughly 8.00am.Private, Local Authority and Voluntary providers open at 7.30am with some walking or transporting the children toschool via bus.After school provision is for children aged from 3 years to 11 years, some after school provisions are managedby schools offering after school activities and others are managed by voluntary, private or Local Authorityproviders. Some after school providers collect the children from neighbouring schools, but are not based in aschool. Further information on after school provision can be found with the Family Information Service. Provisionstarts at the end of the school day, which can vary between 3.00pm and 3.30pm and for unregistered provisionsends at 5.30pm however, registered provisions remain open until 6.00pmType of provisionNumber ofProvidersDay nursery 28Play group/ Sessional care (includes Flying Start provision) 57After school 49Breakfast 93Childminders 155Holiday Care/Open Access 11Crèches 4Total number of childcare settings = 397 39753