30 Hours Free Childcare
On September 2018, all Local Authorities were given guidance by DfE on evaluating their localised evolving 30 hours childcare offer. Premier Advisory Group is able to support Local Authorities with this process – through process and impact evaluations – which would look at the critical questions of: Is supply of 30 hours childcare places keeping up with demand?; are parents able to access the provision they need?; and are providers able to deliver as part of an effective business model?
Sufficiency Assessment
The 30 hours childcare offer is now in its second full year of operation. It has undoubtedly thrown up quite a few questions and challenges so far. It has now surpassed the governments targets in terms of the numbers of families accessing the childcare offer and statistics so far suggest it’s certainly allowed more parents to work and indeed to work more flexibly. Premier Advisory Group have so far undertaken eight 30 hours childcare offer themed sufficiency assessments. We have therefore already honed a methodology which has inherent flexibility but which remains robust and able to demonstrate how local early years childcare markets – and the other two funded entitlements – are reacting to the evolving delivery of 30 hours childcare.
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30 hours childcare sufficiency assessment 
Outreach
Premier Advisory Group has in the recent past undertaken outreach work to promote the free/funded entitlement for 2 year olds to relevant families. We are able to replicate that model of focused community outreach and promote the 30 hours childcare offer, including to harder-to-reach families and parents.
