Agenda and minutes

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The Cabinet Member will advise of any items they have decided to take as urgent business.

None.

The report will seek Cabinet Member authorisation to launch a consultation with stakeholders and affected groups on a number of  possible options for the application of the Dedicated Schools Grant Early Years block funding in Haringey from 2017-18.

The Cabinet Member considered a report that requested permission to launch a consultation with stakeholders and affected groups on options for the application of the Dedicated Schools Grant Early Years Block Funding in Haringey from 2017-18, arising from proposals put out by the Department for Education.

Noting that the proposals contained in the consultation document had been drawn up in response to a challenging Government-led timetable, and in the absence of a definitive position from the Department for Education, the Cabinet Member stressed that she was keen the consultation be as full and thorough as possible to ensure a range of interested parties have opportunities to give their views. These views would be taken into account by the Cabinet when considering options in early 2017.

RESOLVED

That permission be granted for the launch of a consultation on proposals to:

i)     Introduce the universal base rate proposed in Appendix 1 for providers of the three and four year old free entitlement from April 2017. Appendix 1 sets out how that rate has been calculated,

ii)    Set from 1st April 2017, a deprivation supplement at £0.40p per hour, per child.

iii)    Introduce from September 2017 a single discretionary supplement of £0.12p per hour, per child, targeted towards supporting providers in the delivery of the additional 15 hours,

iv)   Introduce from April 2017, a taper down from the current local authority funding rate of £6 per hour for providers of the 2 year old free entitlement, to the funding rate received by the local authority from the DfE as follows:

2017/18           £6.00

2018/19           £6.00

2019/20           £5.83

2020/21           £5.66

That agreement be given to a process of engagement, to be run as part of the consultation process, as set out in Appendix 2 of the report, to gather views of residents, staff and governors on the following options:

•       To replace the current, Council-determined single fee structure, applied across all eight maintained childcare settings with a new structure where fees differ from setting to setting.

•       To remove the Council’s involvement in the delivery of school-based provision, allowing the schools to set their own fees.

•       To increase fees in the directly managed child care settings to mitigate the loss of subsidy funding.

To consider any items of urgent business admitted under Item 2 above.

None.